And I will help communicate it to the outside world where possible. Which hopefully leads to more adopters, more contributors.
Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 21/12/15 17:14, Shawn McKinney a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > It has been some time since we’ve released fortress, over 8 months, and > it has only core and not the others. Since that time there have been many > enhancements and fixes that should be made available. > > > > I am proposing that we increase the frequency of releases to the apache > directory fortress sub-projects. In the past, before moved to apache > directory, we released around once a month. That is probably too frequent, > but 5 or 6 times a year sounds about right to me. > > Once a month is fine, but if the code base is consolidated already, it > makes sense to release less if there is no urgency. > > The important thing here is : release when it's ready (and it can be > every week, or every 6 months). > > At The ASF, we think that releasing often is somehow a proof that the > project is alive and kicking. It's just a matter of dining the right > pace though ! > > > > That being said, I don’t believe a release means that everything is > perfect in the code base. > > WHATTT ??? :-) > > > There are many things that fortress ‘should do’ but that must not get in > the way with having the best possible working code available for our > community. > > That would be interesting to open discussions on the ML aboit what > should be added in Fortress. We have a few people that seems interested > in Fortress now, and I'm sure that feedback from teh community might > help to decide what is important and what can be differed. > > > > > The problems we face: the only way to use (apache directory fortress) > realm, rest and web is by downloading source and building locally. > > We have to offer a way for users to just download jars or binary, as a > courtesy to them. > > > > So what do you say - can we get the next full release done sometime in > the next weeks? > > I'm your man. I just cut a release for MINA, the LDAP API and ApacheDS > last week, so a few more are not frightening me. That would also be the > perfect occasion to document the process for anyone here to cut a release. > > >
