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-- dims On 4/30/07, Jeremy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi David, On 30/04/07, David Illsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy, > From watching a number of WS-Commons and Axis2 releases, it appears > that neither project votes on release binaries in line with the way > the Incubator does things, we seem to simply vote on the principle of > having a release soon with a given feature-set. I don't believe that > in and of itself that's a problem... I guess I've got a bit more used to the Incubator-way lately :-) Certainly WS & Incubator are two different communities so if there are things from Incubator or elsewhere that the WS community feel make sense in WS then lets propose / vote on them. I think voting on the binaries is one which is used by other Apache projects as well as orgs outside Apache. > > However, we've now had a couple of Axiom and Axis2 releases in the > recent past where the need for an x.y.z + 0.0.1 release has become > apparent within days of a release (the most recent at [1]). The impact > of lack of community testing on real Release Candidates is, imo > showing up in clear fashion. > > Given that, I'm thinking of proposing that we adopt the incubator > method of publishing a real Release Candidate build + associated SVN > revision number that we vote on, rather than voting on "having a > release soon". I'd like to help here. > > N.B. This isn't meant as criticism of anyone, but an observation that > the current method seems to be producing less that ideal results. > > Thoughts/Comments/Suggestions? > David > > [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-2607 Cheers, Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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