Lack of getting the RC's being used by end users has I think been one of the main causes for instability. I'd really like to try something new this time around that might get more users using them.
I'm all for "Release early and often" - in fact arguably we don't do enough point releases. I realize though that there are lots of deps and its hard to coordinate all the releases. Anyways, IIRC the RC's never got put on the download page. The only announcement is to the list. Other projects have better usage of their RC's and I think it'd be worth exploring what could be done differently to get more RC usage of axis2. I've noticed xmlbeans, for example, has been broken on every release so far. And while I tested svn in the middle of dev, I never did test the RC's so I accept part of the blame. This time around I plan on testing xmlbeans on some of my complex schemas, and the other things I personally use like spring and the soapmonitor. Michele, from what I've seen you're had some of the most advanced use cases of axis2. If you could do some RC testing with some of your use cases I'd think that'd go a long way to making 1.3 the most stable yet. No one uses 100% of axis2, but I'd think that if we got more people using the RC's on _their_ code, it'd help plenty. Robert On 7/2/07, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
no it doesnt. this is a classic chicken and egg issue. thats why we make so many RC's but still end users dont play enough with RC's as much as we'd like them to :) thx, dims On 7/2/07, Michele Mazzucco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eran, > > On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 18:26 -0400, Eran Chinthaka wrote: > > I do agree with you that we need a reliable Axis2, but that doesn't > > mean > > we need to keep on postponing releases "until" we fix everything. > > > there was no insult in my comments. My point, instead, is that if you > want new features you can download the last nightly build. If you want > something which works *properly* you download a release. Does it make > sense to release a new version and then ask to people to download the > next nightly build because the release is "broken"? > > > Michele > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
