On 08/23/2011 11:10 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
On Aug 23, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Russell E Glaue wrote:
If we want the community to help us test the jetty assembly, do we release it
too - somehow?
Yes, I think so.
Can we comment out the jetty assemblies for a release, as you said, then uncomment them
and produce a "3.0 Beta" for the jetty assembly?
Is it appropriate to have a tomcat assembly in 3.0, but the jetty assemblies in
3.0-Beta? I understand this potentially could be confusing. Is it necessary
for the community to test a version that is not a daily-released snapshot? Or
do we rely on the community testing the jetty assemblies only from the snapshot
releases, for providing feedback?
As we currently maintain the source in a single source distribution, this would
be awkward/difficult. It might be possible, but not desirable, IMO
Released versions make things much easier. "I'm running on M2 and I've got a problem" is
much easier to deal with than "I have a problem on trunk". For the latter, the questions
are when did you build? What dependencies are you using? etc, etc.
Releases give us something to talk about. They mark progress. They set
expectations. We're way overdue and I don't want to wait any longer... :)
--kevan
I agree. In my other post in another part of this thread, I was saying we need
to release 3.0 even with jetty assemblies not stable. This will give us
something to ask the community to help us test and provide feedback on the jetty
assemblies.
I for one will be one of those community testers.
The question I raised here is do we do one of the following in order to release
a 3.0 final:
1. release a final 3.0 without jetty assemblies, and tell the community to test
the jetty assemblies from the snapshots.
- You don't prefer this, and neither do I. But this thread was seeming to lead
in this direction.
2. release a 3.0-beta with jetty assemblies, and then immediately release a
final 3.0 without jetty assemblies.
- This seems confusing, but I felt better than option 1.
If we are fine with releasing a beta, and not a final, then neither of these
options are necessary to consider.
And it would seem we are now going for a Beta release, which seems to be a good
decision from my viewpoint.
-RG
