Hi Nick and all,

One last try to convince you that we should release 1.6. If I do not
succeed we'll deliver a 1.5.1... :-)

Reasons:

1/ The Cactus versioning is as follows: major.minor.patch => 1.6 would
be a minor release. 1.5.1 would mean a patch release but it's not
really. Actually there are more additions/updates than fixes. Out of 21
changes there are:
  - 11 new additions
  - 3 updates
  - 7 fixes

2/ We have moved to ASL 2.0

3/ All past versions of Cactus have so far been of the type major.minor
except for patch releases (there was only one I think: 1.4.1 because 1.4
was quite buggy).

4/ Among the new additions there is a big one: The Maven plugin for
Cactus, which itself warrants a new minor release I think.

5/ It's easier to release a 1.6 than a 1.5.1 as everything everywhere is
tagged with 1.6 now (including docs like the feature page, etc). Also
users are expecting that the next release is 1.6, not 1.5.1.

6/ I'd like to release the new maven plugin under a 1.6 version rather
than a 1.5.1 (it's more consistent with the fact that all users have
been using 1.6 snapshots so far).

All in all, I think we have enough changes to make it a 1.6 release.

What do you think? :-)

Thanks
-Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Lesiecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 28 February 2004 06:20
> To: Cactus Developers List
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Releasing Cactus 1.5.1?
> 
> Seems there are enough bug fixes to warrant a release, but 1.6 implies
> a major fix or additional functionality. 1.5.1 will only be as new as
> 1.6dev for a short while. Soon 1.6dev builds will be newer. So I guess
> I'd go with 1.5.1. But I don't feel strongly.
> 
> 
> +1 on release
> +0 on 1.5.1
> 
> Nick
> On Feb 27, 2004, at 5:35 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
> > Thinking about it, it might be better to name the release 1.6
instead
> > of
> > 1.5.1 as it will confuse users already using development builds of
> > 1.6dev. They will think their build is more recent than 1.5.1
whereas
> > it
> > is not.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: 27 February 2004 11:30
> >> To: 'Cactus Developers List'
> >> Subject: [VOTE] Releasing Cactus 1.5.1?
> >>
> >> Hi cactus committers,
> >>
> >> What would you think about releasing an interim Cactus 1.5.1
release
> >> containing everything we have in CVS HEAD?
> >>
> >> Here's the list of changes since the 1.5 release:
> >> http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html#release_changes
> >>
> >> I think we have enough to warrant a minor release. I could perform
the
> >> release in about 1 or 2 weeks if we're ok.
> >>
> >> Here's my +1
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> -Vincent
> >> Wanna see JUnit in Action?
> >> (http://manning.com/massol)
> >>
> >>
> >>
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