Frequent, fast releases sure would help - but I am not sure they are
always a good idea, say (as many do) that an API break is needed in
the alpha code - I'm not sure that should pass by on the fast track,
it could cause problems with those in the wrong time zone not being
able to comment.
Andy
On 10 Sep 2007, at 17:59, Jason van Zyl wrote:
Hi,
For 2.1 I have been trying to lock down all the versions so that
the dependencies are stable. When I need to fix something in
classworlds, plexus, or modello, I just make the fix, install, test
and if everything works deploy it and lock down the versions in the
build and continue.
I would like to do the same with maven-artifact and get a little
more agile, and not force people to use a snapshot. For alphas I
think it would be acceptable to get 3 +1s from PMC members and then
push it out. For anything in beta or beyond it's the standard
procedure, but pushing out an alpha or incremental release just
takes too long and it is in those times of flux that the bugs in
the snapshot mechanism bite you. I think this will also force us to
start changing things to what they are. Doxia for example should
probably be a beta, not an alpha.
I want to be able to fix things in maven-artifact as using
SNAPSHOTs is not good for external dependencies, but I don't want
to be grounded for 3 days while I wait to release maven-artifact in
order to pick up a stable set of changes. We can use timestamps too
I suppose, but then what's the difference really. I just want to
get the 2.1 release out faster. Maven artifact is simply no where
near being usable for 2.1 and it's going to change as it will be
one of the first proposals I will put on the table after the first
series of alphas to fix the bugs, regressions, and usability.
Thanks,
Jason
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Jason van Zyl
Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
jason at sonatype dot com
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