Knut Anders Hatlen wrote: > August 1: Release Apache Derby 10.2.1.0. > > Obviously, the dates need to be aligned with the 10.1.3 schedule. > > Is this something the community wants and would support? And are the > proposed dates for feature freeze and release possible to meet for > those of you who plan to have new features for the 10.2 release?
Seems close to the Sept/Oct timeframe proposed for the 10.2 release with JDBC 4.0. "Release early, release often" is good, but if we create too many branches for Derby it will cause confusion and additional work for contributors and committers as patches might need to be ported to several branches. Another way to look at the "Release early, release often" is to focus on the release early part, we can (&do) make snapshots of 10.2 (trunk) available for people to test new features. That is a "release" of the software though not an "offical release" with stability etc. We could probably do a better job of providing snapshots. Up to this point we have provided them infrequently. Also, looking at the current 10.2 snapshot there is no text around it to say why people should pick it up and what they should be testing. Dan.
