All ASF projects are expected to provide automatic nightly builds. We just haven't gotten to around to that yet. The nightly builds live for seven days each, and then get recycled, so as to not eat up too much disk space.
Any non-automatic release is generally tagged with a sequential version number. After someone rolls it, we vote on it's quality: Alpha, Beta, General Release. A release can start out as Alpha and work its way up to General Release as more people try it. A release can also be downgraded if a problem is found later. Of course, since the Subversion revision numbers are essentially tags, we could also snag any given nightly build (once we have them) and designate it "version #.#.#", making a note in our status file that version #.#.# corresponds to SVN revision ####. Later, if we ever need to branch, we can branch on a revision number as easily as a tag. -Ted. On 7/5/05, Sven Boden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not specific to the problem below. But what about providing iBATIS > development releases, e.g. after every big round of SVN changes. Most > other projects seem to do it. > > A few advantages I see: > - It's easier to tell people: "test with the development jar files" > than "extract the sources from SVN, compile and test" > - Better quality of releases as more people would already test/use the > development releases. > - Less "pressure" to release new versions. > > Regards, > Sven Boden > > > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:29:03 -0600, you wrote: > > >As soon as brandon gives the go-ahead on IBATIS-148, then we'll be good to > >go! > > > >Cheers, > >clinton > > > >On 7/5/05, Guido García Bernardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am facing with this bug: > >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IBATIS-152, solved in 2.1.5 > >> > >> Is there any release plan for 2.1.5 so that I can decide whether or not > >> I'll need to use 2.0.9b or compile the source? > >> > >> Thank you very much. > >> > >> -- > >> Guido García Bernardo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Tfn. +34 983 54 89 08 > >> ITDEUSTO - Valladolid > >> > >> > >> > > -- HTH, Ted.
