IMHO, some documentation on what and how it works today and a release is more important than another percentage of passing tests. A release means the project is serious and it passes the Apache release requirements, i.e. licensing etc and also is a good exercise to go through for new projects like VXQuery.
Cezar On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jochen, > > I agree with both high level points: > 1) creating more (some) documentation and > 2) creating a release. > > However, I think that these 2 use cases won't be among the things we can > document. > As we had decided in February, we changed the focus of VXQuery from > "running on different data models" to "running on large amounts of data in > a clustered environment". (Unfortunately we only updated the project page > yesterday, so the fact that we actually did change the focus was somewhat > hidden ...) > For this new focus, we anticipate that VXQuery will more or less > standalone and that data will come in from external sources (mostly files). > So it is unlikely, that data will come in as JAXB classes or DOM instances. > > But we really need to document what works today (e.g. approx. 4000 of the > 19000 tests of the XQuery test suite) and how it can be used. > Also, I think that we are only a few weeks away from enabling another > large chunk of the test suite and from increasing the usefulness of what we > have. And I think that it would be a good point in time for our first > release when we get there. > > Does this make sense? > > Cheers, > Till > > On Aug 6, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > looking forward, the most important steps for the VXQuery project seem > to me: > > > > - Create some documentation, at least for the following use cases: > > > > * Use VXQuery to select data out of Java beans (JAXB classes?) > > * Use VXQuery to select data out of DOM documents > > > > And then, ASAP, cut a first release, no matter the projects then > current state. > > > > That way it should be possible to gain a little bit more interest by > > others. I'd strongly recommend to think in that direction. > > > > Jochen > > > > > > > > -- > > In other words: what could be seen as a socially debilitating failure > > of character can certainly work to your advantage too. (Linus > > Torvalds, but the use in the signature tells something about me as > > well.) > >
