On Mar 8, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote:
> At this stage, are we allowed to use the trademark Java in the name
> since we haven't passed the TCK?
>
Probably not :)
But I wasn't suggesting we do that until we get to that point. So
for now, we can call it
Apache Harmony M1
or such...
geir
> Alex.
>
> On 08/03/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Sian January wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Geir,
>> >
>> > Just a quick thought about the names. I like the idea of having
>> > milestone
>> > releases (M1, M2 etc). However if the release is called "Apache
>> > Harmony Pre
>> > M1" or "Apache Harmony M1", and then we want to use M1, M2
etc for
>> > future
>> > versions like Java 6 and Java 7 how will we tell the difference
>> > between the
>> > Java 5 M1 release and the Java 6 M1 release?
>>
>> That's a good question...
>>
>> I think that once we get out the door, maybe we call it
>>
>> Apache Harmony Java SE 5 M1
>>
>> or
>>
>> Apache Harmony Java SE 6 M1
>>
>> or
>>
>> Apache Harmony v5 M1
>>
>> or
>>
>> Apache Harmony v6 M1
>>
>> or
>>
>> I dunno... :)
>>
>> If you have another idea, go for it :)
>>
>> I just wanted to give us names to start using for sorting bugs,
>> targeting features, and working towards.
>>
>> geir
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Sian
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 07/03/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is a new thread, building on the thread that Mikhail
>> started, to
>> >> get away from some of the shoals we encountered.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to propose we start a formal release schedule :
>> >>
>> >> * Monthly releases, targeted for the last day of each
>> >> month. (IOW, avoid the April 1 release)
>> >>
>> >> * For some set of platforms that we support
>> >>
>> >> * Regression free (if we support an app or feature in
release X,
>> >> we support it in X+1 unless we agree in a vote to
>> >> regress).
>> >>
>> >> A lot of good things will come from starting down this road :
>> >>
>> >> 1) We can start putting together the process to decide on "code
>> >> freeze", building and testing, etc.
>> >>
>> >> 2) This will allow us to do JIRA triage that is meaningful - we
>> can
>> >> pre-set the releases in JIRA, and bucket the JIRAs into the
>> release
>> >> buckets
>> >>
>> >> 3) We can chart out what we want to do in Wiki (and then
>> harvest for
>> >> the site) what we hope to accomplish in each release. Up to
>> now, the
>> >> roadmap was very high-level, and for the most part, we've been
>> >> amazingly good at following it (especially considering it was a
>> SWAG
>> >> done in response to a question I got on a concall once...) I
>> would
>> >> love to see us chart out the remainder of the API, some sense
>> of VM
>> >> feature (like "switch to GCv5"), and a set of apps we plan
to have
>> >> running.
>> >>
>> >> An important element to this will be naming. I think that as
>> we're
>> >> just figuring this out, we should avoid date-oriented names
(like
>> >> "March", "April"...) so we can shift the schedule as need be.
>> While
>> >> I like the "M1, M2, M3" scheme, I personally utterly detest
the
>> >> "1.0-
>> >> M1" approach, as it ties your hands horribly. I think that we
>> should
>> >> avoid prefixing a version number for now, and use version
numbers
>> >> when we get the JCK and can plan out a 0.5, 0.6, 0.7... to 1.0
>> train
>> >>
>> >> So it could be
>> >>
>> >> Apache Harmony Pre M1
>> >> Apache Harmony Pre M2
>> >> Apache Harmony Pre M3
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> for now. This is really common and banal. Boring....
>> >>
>> >> We're building on the shoulders of giants here, and I think it
>> would
>> >> be nice to honor those that came before us. Here's a list of
>> great
>> >> people in the history of Java who I'd love to honor, as many
>> are my
>> >> heros :
>> >>
>> >> 1) "Hamilton" (Graham, The Enforcer)
>> >> 2) "Bloch" (Josh, API hero)
>> >> 3) "Gafter" (Neil, API hero)
>> >> 4) "Bracha" (Gilad, VM hero)
>> >> 5) "Click" (Cliff Click, hotspot hero)
>> >> 6) "Gingel" (Rob, Chief Engineer, and guy who grokked OSS)
>> >> 7) "Detlefs" (David, GC hero)
>> >> 8) "Lindholm" (Tim, VM spec guy)
>> >> 9) "Yellin" (Frank, VM spec guy)
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts? Comments? Flames?
>> >>
>> >> geir
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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