On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > >> Possibly a query for IO too if it's 2.0 has large changes. >> >> Given the large API changes in Lang 3.0 and Collections 4.0, a beta >> release seems like a very useful thing (kudos to pbenedict for >> convincing of me that months ago on IM :) ). >> >> I'm interested in what advice and thoughts people might have on the >> subject. Areas I can think of are: >> >> 1) versioning, does JIRA identify the version as 3.0-beta1; or just >> have a 3.0 and treat the beta as an invisible release? I'm preferring >> the latter. >> 2) Maven - does the beta go to the main Maven repo, or just tell >> people to pull from snapshot (and make sure there are current >> snapshots in the snapshot repo)? I'm thinking the latter. >> 3) Announcements - blogging, announce@ type announcements presumably. >> 4) Length of time spent in beta. I think we should define this up front. >> >> The intent would be to get early adopters using and finding bugs, but >> more importantly drive conversation around the API changes and suggest >> new ones. I want us to be able to change an API without having to say >> "Yeah, that was dumb - sadly we have to wait 'til 5.0". >> >> I think both Lang and Collections are ready to have a beta release >> asap - once some level of documentation is created, both proto release >> documentation and something to define the beta testing period. >> >> Any thoughts are much appreciated, > > While we're somewhat on-topic, I would heartily suggest that we give due > consideration to switching to the Nexus install at repository.a.o for the > Commons release cycles. This is the way the wind is blowing, seems to make > management easier, and is mostly if not completely already set up as Ralph > and I have been deploying sandbox snapshots there for some time. A formal > PMC vote to do all our releases through Nexus would be best, though we > _could_ continue to do this one component at a time; see > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1896.
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