On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:40:26AM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Hiram Chirino wrote: > >> > >>Going back to the original issue of an external project not wishing > >>to do a release, we want to make it clear that this is something that > >>we threw together ad hoc, and not something published by the external > >>project. > >> > > > >The upside to having a geronimo committer build the artifact himself > >from source is that you have a better oversight in knowing from what > >source code a binary was produced. Perhaps we should tag the file > >name with something, so it obvious it's an ad hoc build that an apache > >committer through together. > > Yep! > > > > >>And I'm still not comfortable doing something like that in a real > >>geronimo release. > >> > > > >I agree it's not the best solution, but it's something we have to deal > >with. Unless you are willing to hold up on doing geronimo releases > >until all it's dependent software does an official release. And then > >this would apply transitively, such that you would have to wait till a > >SNAPSHOT dependency of activemq is has been officially released. etc. > > > > Well, yah, sorta. Milestones are less of a problem but "real" versions? > > I don't think that we would be happy with some other project > distributing jars called "geronimo-kernel-xxxx.jar" or the like. Not > only could it mean misery and pain in support, but also risk to > reputation, and possibility of it containing code that we'd never > release. The last thing we need is to explain to someone that a > geronimo jar containing BEA code (or whatever) really isn't a Geronimo > jar. > > I certainly feel the pain of the problem. But if we can do whatever we > can to get the other projects to do even 'beta' or 'rcx' releases... > Hiram, do you know any influential committers on ActiveMQ? :D >
Seems like we are going in circles on this one. Can we reasonable agree that it isn't practical to hold up a Geronimo release till every project we have a snapshot depenency on is able to hand us some sort of official release of their own? -David
