One refinement on the NB model: the end of a 4 week period + bugfixing is called a "milestone release" and is made available for download. I don't know if that is feasible in the Apache model, but maybe Java DB could make the milestone releases of "Java DB" available?
David On 9/27/07, Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday, a number of derby-dev folks had lunch in San Francisco: David > van Couvering, Lars Heill, Rick Hillegas, Myrna van Lunteren, Kathey > Marsden, Mike Matrigali, and Bryan Pendleton. Here are the highlights of > the Derby-related part of our conversation: > > Big news: IBM won't be localizing Derby error messages, now that > Cloudscape is no longer available as a standalone product. So the > community needs help localizing future releases (including 10.3). > > Release cadence: Kathey thought that she might be willing to > release-manage a maintenance release but she didn't want to tackle > 10.3.2 because it would be so close to the announced schedule for 10.4. > > Bug-fix cadence: David shared the Netbeans model for maintaining an even > quality level during development: They alternate 4 weeks of feature work > with 1 week of bug fixing. > > It was great seeing everybody! > > Regards, > -Rick > >
