Thanks for the quick response, Bryan. Some comments inline...
On 12/31/18 7:56 PM, Bryan Pendleton wrote:
Hi Rick,
The proposed schedule seems fine to me. Is there actually a release
candidate to test at this point? Or are we still in the mode of
testing things built from source ourselves?
I'll post a release candidate next Monday. Until then, you have to build
your own jars.
I didn't see any obvious flaws on the release notes page, thanks for
putting it together.
It strikes me that there are, broadly, two categories of people who
will experience Derby 10.15:
1) Existing Derby users, who have figured out how to use the current
scripts, tools, jars, etc.
2) New users, who have never used Derby before.
New users, I think, will just start with the regular documentation,
and won't need a lot of help from the release notes.
So I think that the release notes should be sort of phrased as:
"here's what changes with Java 9 and the modularized Derby packages;
and here's what is still the same as it was before. "
Hopefully that's useful feedback.
I think that, once I start really getting some hands-on time with
Derby 10.15 and Java 9, I might have a little bit more feedback.
Thanks for that feedback. I will give some thought to how to smooth the
transition of existing users from 10.14 to 10.15.
Thanks,
-Rick
thanks,
bryan
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:41 PM Rick Hillegas <rick.hille...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have published preliminary release notes for the 10.15.1 release
(http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/db/derby/code/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.html?view=co)
and proposed a schedule for vetting the release. See
https://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyTenFifteenOneRelease Please let
me know how I can improve these release notes.
Thanks,
-Rick
