On 12/3/06, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

release early, release often!

i understand and agree with the reasons behind the 'no releases rule'
but wonder whether team labs may need to consider how they will
interpret this rule and offer some documented guidelines.

people disagree about what a release is

IMO a release is fundamentally just a line in the sand: a tag in
subversion. what matters is the source. everything else is just
packaging.

so (for me) a literal reading of the 'no release' rule excludes all
tags from the apache repository


That's not how I read it at all, especially now that we have Roy's updated
definition of what a release is:

http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what

I don't see any reason to avoid tags and branches in labs. After all,
they're useful for development, not just for flagging releases.

--
Martin Cooper


this leads on the issue of offshore tags and releases. one approach
for those who need releases would be to use subversion to create
offshore tags. a more radical approach would be to cut releases
offshore.

given that maven requires released dependencies, i suspect that these
issues are going to have to be tackled sooner or later.

opinions?

- robert

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