On Jun 4, 2012, at 5:48 PM, gilbertoca wrote: > Just a curious final user here - waiting this release - , but shouldn't it > be interesting to close/resolve as much issues as we can before a > release?[1] > Maybe, I'm not seen the big picture or don't understand how ASF project is > managed!
Just like with any project, the goal is to ship the best product possible, but in some reasonable time. So these 2 have to be balanced. FWIW I have a very long list of things I want to see in Cayenne, and would prefer a permanent Alpha, but we have to ship stable releases occasionally :) So now that we cloned the Beta to a separate branch (and if the release vote passes), all bug fixes will be applied to trunk and that stable branch, all other changes that have a potential to destabilize the API or the framework will go on trunk. So the final release stays with a fixed feature set, but becomes more and more "stable" as we fix the the bugs. All the new stuff goes to trunk. > Other thing, I've started reading the docbook (well, where there is > something written! rs rs) and found some typos - setup.xml and > including-cayenne-in-project.xml [2]. I hope to help more with docs now. I'm > finally using the Cayenne in a real project. Awesome! Thanks for taking time to review the existing docs (yes, we still need to write a lot of those, something I hoped to accomplish while in beta). With this patch I guess I can manually fix the typos, so what you sent us is everything we need. Going forward I'd appreciate if you could open a Jira and attach patches to it. There is a little thing to check when you submit a patch explicitly authorizing ASF to use your contribution. Just a formality, but makes it easier for us to include the contribution in Cayenne. Thanks again, Andrus
