Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-28 Thread Rick Hillegas
Hi Mike, Some responses follow. Regards-Rick Mike Matrigali wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Thanks, Kathy. I think I'm getting the message that the following would be an acceptable and more traditional schedule: August 10 : Last feature work commits August 11 : First release candidate

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Rajesh Kartha
Rick Hillegas wrote: Last week, Sun Microsystems announced that it will bundle Derby with the next major release of the reference jdk, Java SE 6, also known as Mustang or jdk1.6. If you download the latest Mustang build, you will see that it contains our Derby 10.2.0.3 snapshot in the db

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Rick Hillegas
Thanks, Rajesh. In your scheme, when should feature work on 10.2 wrap up? I had budgeted 2 weeks between the end of feature work and the first release candidate. Is that overkill? Should we propose that feature work wraps up by, say, July 27? Rajesh Kartha wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Last

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Kathy Saunders
Rick Hillegas wrote: Thanks, Rajesh. In your scheme, when should feature work on 10.2 wrap up? I had budgeted 2 weeks between the end of feature work and the first release candidate. Is that overkill? Should we propose that feature work wraps up by, say, July 27? Do we need to have a

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Rick Hillegas
Thanks, Kathy. I think I'm getting the message that the following would be an acceptable and more traditional schedule: August 10 : Last feature work commits August 11 : First release candidate generated August 24 : Second release candidate generated September 7: Third and hopefully last

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Kathy Saunders
Rick Hillegas wrote: Thanks, Kathy. I think I'm getting the message that the following would be an acceptable and more traditional schedule: August 10 : Last feature work commits August 11 : First release candidate generated August 24 : Second release candidate generated September 7: Third

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Kathy Saunders wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Thanks, Kathy. I think I'm getting the message that the following would be an acceptable and more traditional schedule: August 10 : Last feature work commits August 11 : First release candidate generated August 24 : Second release candidate

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Mike Matrigali
Rick Hillegas wrote: Thanks, Kathy. I think I'm getting the message that the following would be an acceptable and more traditional schedule: August 10 : Last feature work commits August 11 : First release candidate generated August 24 : Second release candidate generated September 7: Third

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Mike Matrigali wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Thanks, Kathy. I think I'm getting the message that the following would be an acceptable and more traditional schedule: August 10 : Last feature work commits August 11 : First release candidate generated August 24 : Second release candidate

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-27 Thread Mike Matrigali
Jean T. Anderson wrote: I believe some of the features were already originally planning on an august 15 or later date, and have adjusted to an august 10 date. Some definitely won't make it with an earlier code freeze. There's no code freeze per se on ASF projects. sorry, I never meant

Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Rick Hillegas
Last week, Sun Microsystems announced that it will bundle Derby with the next major release of the reference jdk, Java SE 6, also known as Mustang or jdk1.6. If you download the latest Mustang build, you will see that it contains our Derby 10.2.0.3 snapshot in the db directory parallel to lib

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Kathey Marsden
Rick Hillegas wrote: The JCP requires that our JDBC4-exposing release can not be generally available until the JDBC4 specification is finalized. Is this something that the Derby community is bound to? Here are proposed dates for 10.2 milestones: August 10 - Feature work committed. 10.2

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Rick Hillegas
Hi Kathey, Thanks for raising these issues. Here are some clarifications. Regards, -Rick Kathey Marsden wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: The JCP requires that our JDBC4-exposing release can not be generally available until the JDBC4 specification is finalized. Is this something that the

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Rick Hillegas wrote: Last week, Sun Microsystems announced that it will bundle Derby with the next major release of the reference jdk, Java SE 6, also known as Mustang or jdk1.6. To be precise, Sun Microsystems announced that it will bundle Java DB with Mustang.

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Rick Hillegas wrote: Kathey Marsden wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: What happens between September 15 and End of October on the 10.2 branch? If we fix critical bugs during that time in the 10.2 branch can't they go into the release end of October? They should be able to. Since we won't

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Rick Hillegas wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for your comments. Some further remarks follow. Regards, -Rick Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Kathey Marsden wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: What happens between September 15 and End of October on the

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Rick Hillegas
Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for your comments. Some further remarks follow. Regards, -Rick Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Kathey Marsden wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: What

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Rick Hillegas
Rick Hillegas wrote: Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for your comments. Some further remarks follow. Regards, -Rick Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote: Kathey Marsden wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote:

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Rick Hillegas wrote: Daniel John Debrunner wrote: The mid-Sep Derby release candidate will be marked alpha or beta (JCP rules) so the databases won't upgrade anyway. I apologize for creating confusion here. We'd like Mustang to ship with a fully functional Derby, which creates

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
Ok, this is very tricky. First, I'd like to make sure we're on the same page here about Java DB going into the JDK. I think in general the community thinks it's a good thing for Derby for Java DB to be in the JDK. It gives us great exposure and distribution. I also think the community

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Jean T. Anderson
David Van Couvering wrote: ... In order for this to work, we need Java DB to be based on an official, GA-ready release of Derby to be what Sun redistributes in Mustang. Otherwise databases created in Mustang will be locked in to Java DB. The problem is that it can't *actually* be GA until

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Jean T. Anderson wrote: David Van Couvering wrote: ... In order for this to work, we need Java DB to be based on an official, GA-ready release of Derby to be what Sun redistributes in Mustang. Otherwise databases created in Mustang will be locked in to Java DB. The problem is that it can't

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Andrew McIntyre wrote: Call in the lawyers: From JSPA - 2.0.1 10 January 2005 [1], which presumably the ASF board has executed, being a JCP Member (they've even got quotes from Geir prominently featured on their about JCP 2.6 page [2]): 5.B. License to Create Independent

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
Jean and Dan, you raise good points (a) what happens if someone downloads this GA-ready but not GA release of Derby. If for some reason we have to do a respin of the release (see (b)), how will they later know that it's not actually an official release of Apache? (b) is there a

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
Andrew McIntyre wrote: Anyway, what's the trigger for breaching the contract here? If it's 'creation' alone, then rolling that release candidate surely qualifies as as creation. If it's 'creation and distribution,' well, is posting the release candidate in a public forum and on a public website

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Lance J. Andersen
Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Andrew McIntyre wrote: Call in the lawyers: From JSPA - 2.0.1 10 January 2005 [1], which presumably the ASF board has executed, being a JCP Member (they've even got quotes from Geir prominently featured on their

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Rob Stephens
that was MUCH clearer than what rick wrote.. thanks David Van Couvering wrote: Ok, this is very tricky. First, I'd like to make sure we're on the same page here about Java DB going into the JDK. I think in general the community thinks it's a good thing for Derby for Java DB to be in the JDK.

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
David Van Couvering wrote: Andrew McIntyre wrote: Or maybe ask Geir, since he's VP of Java Community Process for the Apache Software Foundation, since similar instances may have come up fairly recently. [3] Even if we did ask Geir, he's not the last word on it. I'd rather hear it from

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
Lance J. Andersen wrote: You cannot have a GA version of a JDBC 4 driver until JSR 221 goes final. Are you *sure* you can't *have* a GA version, e.g the bits can't exist somewhere, as long as they're not officially declared generally available? If we can't even create the bits, then it

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
OK, good point, thanks. David Daniel John Debrunner wrote: David Van Couvering wrote: Andrew McIntyre wrote: Or maybe ask Geir, since he's VP of Java Community Process for the Apache Software Foundation, since similar instances may have come up fairly recently. [3] Even if we did ask

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
Hi, Lance. Sorry I had to challenge you publicly on the list, but I'm really worried that if we're not very careful we are going to paint ourselves into a corner and we are going to have to fork Derby in order to do a Java DB release. I think we need the JCP lawyers (and it sounds like the

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread David Van Couvering
That said, it's probably also good to hear from the JCP as well. It would probably help the ASF gauge what their exposure is and what approaches they feel comfortable with. David David Van Couvering wrote: OK, good point, thanks. David Daniel John Debrunner wrote: David Van Couvering

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Lance J. Andersen
David Van Couvering wrote: Lance J. Andersen wrote: You cannot have a GA version of a JDBC 4 driver until JSR 221 goes final. Are you *sure* you can't *have* a GA version, e.g the bits can't exist somewhere, as long as they're not officially declared generally available? If we can't

Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

2006-06-22 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi,Jean commented on David's post:... In order for this to work, we need Java DB to be based on an official,"GA-ready" release of Derby to be what Sun redistributes in Mustang.Otherwise databases created in Mustang will be "locked in" to Java DB.The problem is that it can't *actually* be GA until