On 7/18/10 8:30 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
As the M4, M5..., RC1 are just intermediate milestones, I think we should just
produce a RC1 without the lib (because we might have a regression in 2.0), and
remove the previous jars
IMO, all these M4, M5..., RC1 stuff is just plain silly. We should release
and come out with patches.
I disagree. When you are in a middle of a refactoring, with many
features being added, and you want to have the opportunity to modify the
API, then releasing means you don't respect users. They trust a release
to be stable - ie, the API does not change, at least not too often -.
RCx are a bit more questionnable though. Here, I would rather release
bug fix versions.
However, MINA is a very special case, as it's an API, not a product. I
fully agree with Alan for products like ftpServer, or Vysper, where the
API is quite defined already.
Anyway, we should release 2.0, that's for sure ! It's just a matter of
finding the time to do so, and on my side, it's difficult atm. There was
one little last problem I tried to fix : we needed to redesign the way
we release in Maven, as it was broken. I started to do so, defining a
new module (distribution) but it's not completed yet.
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
