On 01/06/2011 03:16, David Jencks wrote:
On May 30, 2011, at 10:21 AM, zoe slattery wrote:
This branch development version is incorrect because of the switch of release
scheme. In switching release scheme one assumption was that nothing would ever
be released from the 0.3 branch again so maybe it ought to be deleted? Any
future releases will always be from trunk.
That may not be a safe assumption. Geronimo would like to get a release out
pretty soon and there is little evidence at the moment that trunk will be
stable enough to be usable. On the other hand 0.3 also has its share of
blocking bugs.
Releasing from the 0.3 branch has some implications for Aries release
management - I suspect that it has the potential to create a lot of work so I
would encourage you to use what is in trunk if you possibly can.
I'd like to figure out an appropriate version number for the 0.3 branch and
change to it. It would be great to get trunk released but every time I turn
around I find another problem apparently with the weaving/proxying code and I'm
not confident we can find and fix all the problems quickly enough.
Locally I made a 0.3.0.1-SNAPSHOT application branch that appeared to work fine
with geronimo. What do you expect to be a problem with changing the versions
in 0.3-RCx to 0.3.0.1-SNAPSHOT?
I think there are several issues here. The thing that concerns me most
is that some months ago we had a lengthy discussion on this list about
whether we should move to a release by bundle process and implement OSGi
semantic versioning correctly. This discussion ended in a vote and we
agreed to move forward and modify our development and release process to
implement OSGi semantic versioning. If you want a release from the 0.3
branch you are overturning something that we voted on agreed.
As far as development versions go I don't think what you call the
versions in the 0.3 branch matters a lot. So, as long as you never
release from it I don't really see an issue (although I may well have
missed something). If you ever want a release from that branch someone
will need to work through and figure out how to align what you want with
the OSGi semantic versioning scheme that we set up. I don't think this
is a trivial task, so that, and the belief that there are significant
enhancements in trunk that would benefit Geronimo, is why I am strongly
encouraging you to use trunk.
Zoe
thanks
david jencks
Zoe
