Jean T. Anderson wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Jean T. Anderson wrote:
Kathey Marsden wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
As a test of this, I have updated the description of 10.4.2.1. You
can see this by clicking on the link you forwarded. Does this
format look reasonable to you?
I think we cannot include an url to the Sun build in Jira.
According to:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
"Do not include any links on the project website that might
encourage non-developers to download and use nightly builds,
snapshots, release candidates, or any other similar package.
...
Under no circumstances are unapproved builds a substitute for
releases. If this policy seems inconvenient, then release more
often. Proper release management is a key aspect of Apache software
development.
That www.apache.org/dev/release.html policy governs distribution of
software produced by an Apache project and made available for
download from an Apache website.
Why are we concerned about tracking releases produced by non-Apache
entities, such as Sun?
And IBM. And anyone else who wants to build a distribution from the
community branches. We're talking about tracking and fixing bugs
which are logged against commit points on a community codeline,
whether that is the development mainline or one of our stable
branches. This is useful to everyone who drinks out of the common well.
but it doesn't make sense for an apache project to reference somebody
else's external (non-Apache) build or distribution. --That's a
slippery slope that would then need to accommodate anybody who comes
along. And we should never bump the Derby release number to
accommodate an external project.
Hi Jean,
If you need to fix bugs in the metadata queries, then you have to bump
the last digit of the release id in order to coax Derby into recompiling
the queries. This is what IBM did to fix DERBY-3919. Committers fix bugs
all the time in order to accommodate external projects. Do you believe
that the community has agreed to a limitation on updates to the last
digit of the release id, and if so, what are those limitations?
Thanks,
-Rick
-jean
Regards,
-Rick
-jean
Just the subversion commit number should be sufficient in the Jira
version comment I think.
Kathey
