A few more comments:
A simpler change log would be great. The download page has links to Jira.
Some Jira items have no information (they just have a title and say Fixed)
or others have a history which is hard to navigate.
Suggest following Tomcat-style change-log. One file which has all 1.x.x
release notes with a one-liner describing the change/feature and a link to
Jira if people want to investigate.
There's a number of reasons Tomcat is the world's most popular container.
IMO here's a few professional reasons that I really love Tomcat. If TomEE
addressed these, it would make TomEE more awesome and much easier for
users/companies to adopt:
- simple examples (helps get people started, helps to demonstrate why TomEE
is useful to their company)
- easy to navigate docs (avoids ??% of the questions on the user list,
freeing up dev time, which is *so* important for bugfixes and new features)
- integration with leading IDE's (TomEE could at least have excellent docs
on how to use Tomcat IDE settings, linked directly from the main web page
for easy transition)
- easy to navigate release notes (easy to see what's changed, in 2 minutes,
without browsing dev@ or long jiras)
- upgrade notes (per revision + per major revision) - very important if used
in a production system, I review these personally for every Tomcat
subrelease and make changes to our templates as necessary
- frequent releases (and TomEE should keep-up, like MariaDB does with
MySQL - this is critical IMHO)
- alpha, beta, rc -> release strategy (this would have avoided the 1.5.0 win
issue)
Hope that helps!
Best Regards,
Neale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neale Rudd" <ne...@metawerx.net>
To: <dev@openejb.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: 1.5 Clarification
You're right - proxy or browser cache - I clicked Reload in Chrome and got
the 1.5.0 release on tomee.apache.org finally.
Some sort of too-long cache time problem? I've checked this every day
and only got 1.5.0 just now after I clicked Reload. Might be a problem
for future releases.
Best Regards,
Neale
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Blevins" <david.blev...@gmail.com>
To: <dev@openejb.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: 1.5 Clarification
On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Neale Rudd wrote:
- http://tomee.apache.org/downloads.html shows 1.0.0, but
http://openejb.apache.org/downloads.html shows 1.5.0 as latest release,
aren't these the same site?
That's probably a browser caching issue. The tomee.apache.org is just an
alias.
-David
