Since there is no objection, I'll move forward to create the 0.4.1 branch. Thanks Albert Lee.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > Thanks for your quick initial thought on this matter. > > In OpenJPA (see http://openjpa.apache.org/release-management.html), > interested parties are permitted to create a branch for specialization and > managed by an assigned release manager. This allows: > > * all improvements in all branches transparent to the community > * easy recreation of any branches in place, since all the repositories. > infrastructure are readily available for build and experimentation > * interested parties to use and extract specialized branches for open > usage. > > I can understand your POV not getting the repository proliferate > uncontrollably complex, that's the reason I would like to get agreement (or > permission) to have the branch created. The storage space for each > additional branch for BVal is very minimum, and "justifies" the advantages > this approach would bring to the community. OpenJPA has used this process > since its inception and has been working out very nicely for multiple > parties. > > Thanks again for your considerations. > > Albert Lee. > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Matt Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Albert. I'm not familiar with the OpenJPA community; I'd be >> interested, in the interest of understanding the request, to know more >> about what they do over there and in what context. I'm not sure that, >> from >> my POV, it makes sense for the BVal PMC to play host to a particular >> company's fork. I wonder if it might be more appropriate for your company >> to fork https://github.com/apache/bval on Github and revert whatever >> commits you don't need from the 0.4 tag. >> >> With apologies for having a negative initial reaction, >> Matt >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > My company uses a specific revision of 0.4-incubating in our product >> and I >> > would like to create a branch of this release from this particular >> revision >> > for our maintenance work. I am proposing to follow the model used by >> > OpenJPA: >> > >> > * create a release in >> > svn.apache.org/repos/asf/bval/branches/0.4-incubatingthat branched off >> > from a particular revision in bval/ctags/0.4 >> > * this release will be owned and maintained by the "release manager" of >> > this branch. >> > >> > Any objection? >> > -- >> > Albert Lee. >> > >> > > > > -- > Albert Lee. > -- Albert Lee.
