Recently a release vote received some criticism about whether the release candidate contained sufficient changes to deserve a release.
Here is my position as a member of the Maven PMC. If you are a Maven Committer and you think that a specific plugin / component has a change which _you_ are prepared to spend _your_ time and effort to make a release of that plugin / component... then that change deserves a release. The above is really the only criteria about when to make a release. Obviously to make a release the unit and integration tests must be passing, but as to the scope of changes before you trigger the decision to make a release, that is entirely down to you deciding that you have the time to spend on making the release right now. If you develop a habit of making lots of frequent releases of the same plugin / component with very small changes in-between... you may find that the PMC members review your releases with decreasing priority and you might have to ping after 72h to get to the magic three +1 votes... or you may receive a mail from a PMC member asking that you slow the releases down a bit... but remember that it is better to ask forgiveness in such cases rather than worry and delay a possible release (who knows you might not have the time to make the release next week, and the changes might be a blocking issue for some user out there) In an ideal world, each of the Maven plugins / components would receive a maintenance release (if they have changes) every 6-8 weeks... we are not even close to that 24 plugins had their last release in 2010 6 plugins had their last release in 2009 3 plugins had their last release in 2008 2 plugins had their last release in 2007 And I have not even mentioned the shared components. So if you are a committer, here is a message from your PMC. If you think it needs a release, it needs a release. If after 5-10+ releases from you we think your bar for needing a release is too low, then we will tell you to raise your bar, but don't let fear of a quiet ping from the PMC prevent you from getting those 5-10+ releases out there first -Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
