On 8/15/07, Daniel Fagerstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karl Pauls skrev: > > On 8/15/07, Daniel Fagerstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Niclas Hedhman skrev: > >> > >>> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 05:56, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > >>> > ... > >> Have some trust in community power. If people find it useful there will > >> be feedback and improvements, and sooner or later it will be good > >> enough. If people not are interested, it doesn't matter if the quality > >> is low. > >> > > > > But that is the issue. I haven't seen that much activity around it > > that I would trust in the community (as it is now!). Let's assume we > > do the release and lots of projects start using our wrappers - I bet > > sooner rather then later we have to start creating several wrappers > > per project (to match different versions) then we end-up maintaining > > 40 something artifacts (in many cases making version decisions for > > them too). > > > I understand your concern and can agree about that it might be to early > to release Felix commons now. Several of the bundles I have looked at > could need some more polishing before they are ready for a release. > > I think automated snapshot releases of Felix Commons to some Maven > repository would be a reasonable level. It makes it easy to use the > artifacts for other projects (I have no problem with checking out and > build Felix, but it increases the threshold for my co-developers to get > started with OSGi). At the same time is a snapshot release not much of a > commitment from the Felix community, no one expect the snapshot releases > to be forever back compatible or even released.
Sure. I wouldn't mind snapshot releases at all (in fact I was assuming we do that already :-). regards, Karl > > I just have the feeling that this might be a bit to much for us. We > > already have lots of sub-projects and could start a couple more > > without even thinking much but we still don't have all the core > > features implemented. If we now get spammed with questions, feature > > requests, and bug reports regarding wrapped artifacts ... > > > That might be part of it if Felix Commons is successful. But as Felix is > a volunteer effort, no one has even the slightest right to ask you to do > anything about it if you don't feel like it. But that is normally only a > (small) part of the story for a successful subproject, what the > community also get is that interested people generate patches and > oversight and that the community becomes larger. > > /Daniel > > -- Karl Pauls [EMAIL PROTECTED]
