On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: > > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: > > > > > > > > > > > > > i can happily live without any more JAMES server releases. the plan to > > > > release JAMES as a series of loosely coupled embeddable libraries > > > > works very well for me. but from a community perspective, being able > > > > to work together to create new JAMES server releases would be healthy. > > > > perhaps we should set history aside and just adopt a release process > > > > which other projects have found solves the proving issue. > > > > > > > > > > > I guess we already know how to do this. As you can see in my other > reply to > > > this thread we made two 2.3.0 alpha releases from trunk in feb and may > 2006. > > > Then we branched for one more alpha, 3 betas and 4 release candidates > during > > > a 4 months period before a final release. > > > > > > > the key difference is that the same release passes through a number of > > different stages. a problem with the above is that encourages > > development paralysis. either the code has to be forked or development > > is frozen for long periods. both of which are harmful. > > > > Sorry, I probably misunderstood the sentence I quoted. > Can you say it again with different words? (concrete checklist/roadmap > would be perfect to avoid my misunderstanding ;-) ).
1 Isn't it time we did a release? 2 [PROPOSAL] Prepare release foo-x.y.z managed by Anne 3 Focus on fixing code base 4 Anne tags then prepares foo-x.y.z which is the release candidate and makes it available for proving 5 [VOTE] Promote foo-x.y.z to alpha 6 [VOTE] Promote foo-x.y.z to beta 7 [VOTE] Promote foo-x.y.z to fc if foo-x.y proves to be substandard then start again with foo-x.y.(z+1) - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
