On 31 March 2011 21:06, Robert Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 31 March 2011 19:36, Gordon Sim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/18/2011 03:56 PM, Justin Ross wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Robert Godfrey wrote: >>> >>> I know Gordon said: >>>> >>>> >>>> "Specifically I'd suggest that unless anyone has specific updates to the >>>> following artefacts - and volunteers to verify the artefact for the >>>> release >>>> - we remove them from the published list: >>>> >>>> qpid-dotnet-0-8-0.10-beta.zip >>>> qpid-dotnet-0-10-0.10-beta. >>>> zip >>>> qpid-ruby-0.10-beta.tar.gz >>>> >>>> This will avoid giving false impressions about ongoing maintenance for >>>> these >>>> clients" >>>> >>>> But I think that if we are going to actually do this, we should formally >>>> vote for it, and move the codebases for these artefacts into an "attic" >>>> directory or similar. >>>> >>>> I'm not against removing unloved and unmaintained code... but I do >>>> feel that >>>> we should vote before adding or removing artefacts to/from the release. >>>> >>> >>> Okay. I'll restore these to RC2 unless there's a vote to remove them. >>> >> >> I would find it hard to vote for a new release that contained those >> artefacts unless someone could justify it through a list of changes made[1] >> (this would also have the benefit of identifying possible maintainers for >> those components to whom questions of support could be directed). I.e. I >> think that a vote will be required to keep them in, and it would be >> unfortunate to stall the whole release. >> >> However I do agree that some more explicit 'consensus gathering' on this >> is important since my previous mail did not result in any comments or >> responses. Therefore... >> >> ...please reply with your +1 / -1 vote, or cross one of the boxes for each >> of the cases below: >> >> (a) >> >> > >> [X] +1, qpid-dotnet-0-8-0.10 SHOULD be removed from the 0.10 release >> >> [ ] -1, qpid-dotnet-0-8-0.10 should NOT be removed from the 0.10 release >> (please list changes it includes to support this vote) >> >> (b) >> >> [X] +1, qpid-dotnet-0-10-0.10 SHOULD be removed from the 0.10 release >> >> [ ] -1, qpid-dotnet-0-10-0.10 should NOT be removed from the 0.10 release >> (please list changes it includes to support this vote) >> >> (c) >> >> [X] +1, qpid-ruby-0.10 SHOULD be removed from the 0.10 release >> >> [ ] -1, qpid-ruby-0.10 should NOT be removed from the 0.10 release >> (please list changes it includes to support this vote) >> >> >> > > I'm generally +1 with removing all three. Is there any documentation that > needs to be altered though? > > Also, I forgot to add, should we not move the code into an "attic" or something. If we're not going to support the codebase, lets be very clear about it? -- Rob
