> The message from Lucas Galfaso was actually well timed. > > At ApacheCon I was talking with Felix Meschberger about our need to > actually start making official releases of our sub-projects. Actually, > my thinking was motivated by the recent users@ message from Matthias > Luebken, where he was asking about how to get access to our service > implementations. Both of these recent messages illustrate that we need > to improve on the current situation. > > In general, we have sub-projects that are in good shape and some that > are experimental. My view is that we should attempt to make official > release of all sub-projects as long as they do something useful (i.e., > as long as it is not too unstable). My thinking is that they only way we > will start getting feedback for JIRA issues and possible contributors > for our sub-projects is by making them reasonably easy to access.
I agree, it would be very useful to get this going :-) > So, I think we need to make a list of which sub-projects we should > target for release (sub-project contributors should speak up about their > sub-projects) and start releasing them, giving them an appropriate > version number to indicate their level of completeness/stability. I can release the event admin. > It would also be good for us to figure out how we can create an OBR > repository for our released bundles. That would be great. The latest maven plugin developments should make this easy right? > This will likely involve a bit of effort, but if we actually want people > to use our stuff, we have to make it easy for them to do so. Let's try > to jump start this activity. > > Thoughts? > > -> richard I do think it is about time to get some of our sub-projects out. As mentioned above, I can do the event admin but some other people need to volunteer to do the releases for other projects. regards, Karl -- Karl Pauls [EMAIL PROTECTED]
