Myrna van Lunteren wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking over the fixed and open bugs for the 10.3 release,
and there is a lot of good stuff...
However, there are also some worrying aspects:
- There are a number of Critical bugs open, most without any
indication of getting a fix. See:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10594&priority=2&resolution=-1
- There are a number of intermittent test regressions so we're not
getting consistently clean test runs. Just look at the platform
testing list to see this:
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/TenThreePlatformTesting
In addition, there are 7 items which never received any Buddy testing...
Further, we still ran into a deterioration in the suites.All at one
point, requiring running with extra memory on many systems, which was
never addressed.
- There are a largish number of open bugs, many of which are marked
affects 10.3., i.e. affect the new functionality added with 10.3.
On the other hand, it seems to me some of the current functionality,
is eagerly awaited by the user community. A number of the critical
bugs are not new with 10.3., or are related to security, which may, or
may not affect a number of our users...And none of them have an
owner...
So, I intend to continue with my stated plan of generating a Release
Candidate and call a vote next Monday, but I would suggest we plan for
a bug fix release off the 10.3 branch to specifically drive down the
number of bugs...
Thx,
Myrna
Hi Myrna -
Thanks for the through release report. I took a look at the critical
bug list and am concerned about the regression that causes locking
problems:
DERBY-2892 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2892> - this is
a regression of the DERBY-255 fix and, though it was introduced in 10.2,
should be addressed quickly. Has anyone look at the checkin that might
have caused the regression?
DERBY-326 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-326> (svn 405037).
This also concerns me because I assume the problem is because of the
collation differences between the SYS schema and the User Database - I
am not upto date on this issue - can it be resolved?
DERBY-2896 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2896> - It
sounds like DatabaseMetaData calls will fail when TERRITORY_BASED
collation is used. This will mean that many IDEs will not work with
these databases. Since this is a new feature it will not break existing
systems but will slow use of the feature.
