I'm sorry for my late looking at this, it's just my unfortunate that I can't spend more time on the projects here like Kerby. I checked the instructions Shawned initiated for the release vote, I have to say that it's pretty complex or involves much overhead, particularly for me, a guy that never has the time to absorb the complexity or beauty of LDAP things. It contains 4 repos or packages to check and two backends for the integration tests. I'm wondering if the project can be reorganized and consolidated together in future so that people just check out the whole from one repo and when run mvn package install, then all the necessary basic checks can be done. As we're only releasing source packages as done for other projects, we don't need have to do the integration tests because that can be covered by the customers, as Stefan mentioned. The consolidating will make the project much easier participated by new comers, for an example, the hottest ASF project, Spark, it puts all the essential components together, SparkCore, SparkSQL, SparkStreaming, machine learning, GraphX and so on, every component itself is very large than any piece here. Or Hadoop, it contains HDFS and YARN, all in the same repo. Maven has the ability to organize all the levels together.
I checked the sub-project home page in the Directory site and I had another suggestion that we may not have to list the all bugs but instead the major features/functionalities updated. People may click and go into details for the full bug lists. For the long term, the Fortress project itself can be alone separated from the Directory, which may makes the both sides happy, Fortress can evolve fast in its own styles and the parent Directory can be lighter weight focusing on the core, basic LDAP and the serber things. It looks to me that to cover all the wonderful features, the sub-project page won't be to cover them well and look decent. Overall, right now, for the sub-project, I would think, let we relax some bit, let it develop, evolve and release faster and often. Probably same thing to Kerby. Sorry for this inappropriate thoughts on this thread. Will check with my side to see if any help here. Thanks all for the hard-working. Regards, Kai -----Original Message----- From: Shawn McKinney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 9:27 AM To: Apache Directory Developers List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Directory Fortress 1.0-RC42 > On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > > The third option that you have not listed : we were extremelly busy > until this week-end. I had to work all days and most of the nights for > the last 4 days, and I just had time to test Kerby in the train. Today > I decided not to open my ciomputer and instead to chop some wood, as > we had 2 trees down due to the last tempest. This was an interestung > physical exercise that proves that, at 50+, you can still use an axe > for more than 2 hours. Chainsaw is also very efficient... > > Bottom line, keep the vote opened, I'm likely to test and vote > tomorrow or monday. > > And sorry for the delay... Emmanuel you of all people deserve to take a day off and yeah chopping wood will be good for you. :-) No worries, thanks for all of the help you’ve provided up to now. Shawn
