David Van Couvering wrote: >This sounds appealing, but I was told that in an Apache open source >proejct like this we can't really have checkin policies, only guidelines? > > > Well we can reject any submission if it causes a regression and what I am suggesting is that any incompatiblity of jars within the same major version or unreasonable jar file growth be considered a regression. Can we make that part of the vote?
>I do think having compatibility tests will help ensure that these >guidelines are met, however. I didn't think about a regression test to >catch massive jar file growth, that seems easy enough to add... > > > Tests are always good. I have to confess my first month with Cloudscape, I made the mistake of pulling a server class into the tools jar because it looked like something I could use. It came in later as a high priority customer bug labeled "ij needs a DIET!". Your test would have sure helped me out. Kathey
