Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:59 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote:
At the other extreme, a PMC can vote to have a formal release, which
often is supported for multiple years.
What is called for here? The technical part is easy. It is a snapshot,
it is a branch. The hard part is what to call it.
The subject has "release" in it Sam - which has specific meaning in the
ASF as you know very well. That's what the mail was sent for- to permit
a formal release. As such, I don't feel its right for this project to do
a release at this stage.
We don't culturally do "milestone releases" in the ASF (this is for the
Muse folks not for Sam obviously). The solution for that is to use a
specific revision of the SVN repo and build off that .. or just use
Maven snapshots.
As to the ASF not doing milestone releases, I beg to differ:
http://www.google.com/search?q=apache+milestone+release
OF COURSE I agree its a Good Thing (TM) for other projects to use this
code. However, it a CRITICAL THING for any ASF release to meet the usual
ASF release criteria. Do you seriously feel Sam that a project that
basically imported itself from IBM a few weeks ago is ready for a
release? I don't accept it is.
Given (a) that a Maven snapshot would be politically acceptable, but (b)
Eclipse is not currently based on Maven, how would you suggest that Dan
proceeds?
Sanjiva.
- Sam Ruby
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