We gain the ability to release collections more frequently. *because* it is less mature, it needs that.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Jake Mannix <jake.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree in principal, but having a whole different set of versionings seems > kinda... messy? If m-collections goes 1.0, and then 1.1, and then m-math > goes 1.0, and core goes to 0.5, we have a whole pile of different version > numbers to keep track of. > > Didn't Lucene and Solr just intentionally do the reverse, locking their > release > numbers and schedules? And now we're doing the opposite on a less > mature project? What exactly do we gain by this? > > -jake > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For what it is worth, I actually prefer this approach to the multi-pom >> approach in many cases. If it really is a separate thing, it might as well >> have a separate release schedule and artifact. If it isn't a separate >> thing, then you might as well use a single pom. This heuristic doesn't >> always work, and I know that people with more maven experience than I have >> work under different principles. My explanation for the difference in >> opinion is that the separated project may be better for those with limited >> maven experience while the more complex arrangement may be better for those >> with a native fluency. >> >> As such, giving mahout-collections and ultimately mahout-math their own >> version number is a fine thing. Also will pretty much always exhibit more >> maturity than the core mahout project if only because the needs they >> fulfill >> are better understood. That makes the 1.0 version for collections match >> the >> 0.4 upcoming version for Mahout. >> >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com >> >wrote: >> >> > Substance: >> > >> > 1: remove collections-codegen and collections from the top-level pom's >> > module list. >> > 2: change their parents to point to the apache parent. >> > 3: tweak their poms so that the release plugin works right with them. >> > 4: release them >> > 5: change rest of mahout to consume release. >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > This still lives in Mahout, just has a different version number? >> > > what's the substance of the change in the short-term; I think I missed >> > > that step. >> > > >> > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Benson Margulies < >> bimargul...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> Hearing no other remarks, I will proceed to disconnect and make the >> > >> version 1.0-SNAPSHOT, and call a release vote RSN. >> > > >> > >> >
