On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Joe Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A bit of unfinished business from 2.1 is the release of samples. I > think we need to get these fixed and available fairly soon for 2.1. > Here are some questions for discussion around that and how we should > manage the samples in general. > > 1) Do we release all the samples collectively or individually? My vote > would be collectively.
Collectively. > 2) When to release the samples? I think we should make an effort to > release the samples concurrent with each Geronimo release. This is > important because the jsp & servlet examples are referenced from within > the welcome page on Geronimo. I suppose we could remove that reference > and eliminate the need to release concurrently. Concurrent with each Geronimo release but little bit afterwards is ok with me too. I think we should remove that samples reference from the welcome screen. > 3) Managing sample source. IMO the only place we should maintain source > for the samples is in svn. I think Jarek managed to update all of the > sample doc with references to the svn repo for each sample but I think > there might be a place or two where we include a zip of the source in > the wiki in addition to the SVN reference (at least I recall seeing some > not too long ago). I plan to hunt them out and remove those attachments > where they are already checked into svn. IMO, svn only. No attached zips or ears, or etc. > 4) More on managing source.... I think our source for the samples > should mirror the source for the server in terms of branches/tags. Yes, +1. > 5) Should we make all samples plugins? At the moment the jsp-examples, > servlet-examples, and ldap-sample-app are plugins. The other 12 samples > are not. I'd be in favor of creating a plugin for each and will work on > doing this unless I hear objections. I'm ok with that but I don't think that's critical. > I'm sure there are a lot of other issues .... this is just to get the > ball rolling. Yes, thanks for doing that! I also just setup our automated builds to checkout and build the samples (for trunk and branches/2.1). The results should be included in the build emails we already get and that info should start showing up soon (or once I get my shell scripts right :)). Jarek
