On 24-Aug-08, at 10:10 PM, Brett Porter wrote:

Sorry, but I still don't really get why you think a line of development that is some time away from an alpha release needs to worry more about the stability of a component that is already in place for a point release. You could use beta-2, but I don't see the point in that either.

Only 2 things have cropped up in beta-3, and they've both been fixed (WAGON-224, WAGON-225). There was one more that predated my changes, also fixed in trunk and easily worked around in Maven (WAGON-237).

Sure, it would probably have been better to rename 1.0-beta-2 as 1.0 and release Wagon beta-3 as 1.1-beta-1. Hindsight is great. But plenty of time was left for discussion, enough people voted for the release, and I stand by it. Re-releasing something old as 1.0 when the others are out would just be even more confusing. I don't really get what you are trying to achieve that you can't do already.


You don't seem to be listening. Look at what happened with what were intended to be simple changes with 2.0.x and look at where we are how many weeks later. With all our integration tests, RCs and best efforts things just manage to slip though. No one's fault, that's just the way it generally goes here.

The changes that have been made in Wagon have been run through the same groove over and over again and we haven't gotten a huge number of people testing the RCs. That's also human nature.

I also said if we followed the path where what were truly bug fixes could be separate from the major refactorings that would be fine to. I know that when Maven 2.0.x is released with Wagon beta-XX it will be the first time it's heavily vetted and I would rather not have it be a surprise. We also made the decision with respect to Maven after we ventured down the RC path. So hindsight is great. I just think it's the prudent thing to do given it affects almost everything in Maven.

- Brett

On 25/08/2008, at 1:23 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

I don't have a specific problem other then the few things that have cropped up, but the vast majority of people have not tried the new wagon and you honestly have no idea what's going to happen. I would just rather be safe then repentant.

I not to worried about fiddling versions, I just want to patch fix what was used for the last release myself. It's generally the case that we have problems when we do this.

I personally don't think it's for "no good reason": I want to do what we just decided to do with Maven itself. With Wagon we should have just cut the release and moved on.

On 24-Aug-08, at 7:43 PM, Brett Porter wrote:

Do you have an actual problem you are trying to fix? If you don't want to go hunting and need help, just ask. There's no point fiddling versions and creating more confusion for no reason.

Seriously, Wagon should be the least of your concerns in trying to stabilise things there. How about telling us what you are trying to achieve or the problems you're having instead? A month ago you were stabilising, a couple of weeks ago you were intent on rewriting significant parts, now you're stabilising for release again. Instead of being able to dig in and help out, we're wasting time trying to figure out what to call things.

Cheers,
Brett

On 25/08/2008, at 11:12 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

In short I don't want to go hunting, and akin to what we're going with 2.0.x and 2.1.x. The changes were too great for a beta and I don't really want to put them into the 3.0-alpha-1 release.

That is significant:

http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10335&fixfor=12544

If the bug fixes could be separated from large refactoring I could live with it. Nothing immensely terrible seems to be happening to the 2.0.9 folks using beta-2.

I meant rollback to beta-2 for a 1.0.x and then take the 1.0- beta-3 for Wagon 1.1.x.

I think 2.0.x should stay with what I suggest as Wagon 1.0.x and let 2.1.x use Wagon 1.1.x.

On 24-Aug-08, at 5:56 PM, Brett Porter wrote:


On 25/08/2008, at 7:50 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

proxies don't work properly in beta-4.

Are you recalling this from memory or have a particular bug? Proxies weren't working in beta-3 because I made a stupid typo and there wasn't a test case, not because of the significance of changes. That got fixed in beta-4.

John reported a potential backwards compatibility issue (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WAGON-234 ), but it hasn't been confirmed yet. Is this what you are seeing?

- Brett

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Thanks,

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