I know it is against our best practices, but can you just fix 1.3.4 with the correct DTD and then retag it? Do we need a new version (1.3.5) just for this? I am okay either which way. -- Paul
--- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/10/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Once you have had a chance to review this test build, please respond > > with a vote on its quality: > > > > [ ] Alpha > > [X] Beta > > [ ] General Availability (GA) > > > > > Sorry for the late response - I've been at The Ajax Experience conference > for the last couple of days. > > I'm afraid that the Tiles DTD issue is enough for me to vote (strongly, in > fact) against GA. If this release went GA, it would be our first 1.3 GA > release, and thus has the potential for being downloaded and used by > thousands of Struts developers. To have all of those developers' > applications hitting ASF infrastructure every time they start their apps is > not tenable. > > The infrastructure people are already very irritated indeed by all the hits > coming from Java applications looking for DTDs, and some have suggested > removing the use of DTDs completely if the applications cannot be prevented > from hitting ASF infrastructure to verify them. IIRC, 6% of all minotaur > traffic is for DTDs, and Struts is already the worst offender, by a > significant margin. For us to consciously vote to release 1.3.4 as GA, and > thus significantly exacerbate this problem - well, let's just say that if I > could veto a 1.3.4 GA release, I would. > > I understand that there is a great desire to get a GA release out so that it > can be announced at JavaOne. I too think this would be great - we really do > need to see a 1.3 GA release out the door. But it needs to be GA quality, > not just labelled GA in the interest of the timing of the announcement. > > Unfortunately, while I was out at TAE, my illustrious team managed to break > the build of our primary 1.3-based app, so I haven't been able to evaluate > 1.3.4 functionally at this point. I'll try to provide further feedback if I > can get that resolved first. > > -- > Martin Cooper > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
