As much as I would like to see this new flavor out it wouldn't be the same if
nobody knows how to use it.
Yes, you all guessed right, I'm again around the documentation. Who is volunteering to do some "explaining" thingy ?
This is not a small deal, if we release this new distro we need to make some
announcements on the web site, add some overview on the download page and
definitively a section in the 2.1 documentation.
Cheers!
Hernan
Kevan Miller wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008, at 12:03 PM, David Jencks wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Joe Bohn wrote:
With our 2.1 distribution (as with earlier distributions) we are only
providing the javaee5 & minimal assemblies. Are we ever planning to
make the geronimo-framework assembly available in a distribution so
that a user could start from scratch (not even a web container) and
build up a server by installing plugins?
That was the original intent when we created this assembly. I know
that the originally framework included enough deployment capability
to deploy plugins. However, I'm not certain that is still the case
(I haven't tried in a long time). Assuming you can still install
plugins (or we add that back in), I think it makes sense to
distribute this assembly. BTW, I'm not proposing this for 2.1 given
that it is nearly completely baked.
All the framework assembly can do is install plugins. I think we
should definitely distribute it in the future and I am proposing we
distribute it for 2.1 as well. IIUC in any case it will get into the
maven repos, so adding it to the official download page shouldn't be
too hard.
Agreed. We are releasing the framework assembly. It's part of the binary
artifacts in our maven repo --
http://people.apache.org/~kevan/release-votes/G-2.1/geronimo-2.1/org/apache/geronimo/assemblies/geronimo-framework/2.1/
Simple matter, IMO, to also include in the distribution page. IMO, a
vote isn't necessary (as it's already covered by the existing 2.1 vote).
I'll give this a bit of time, to see if there are contrary opinions.
Assuming, the 2.1 vote passes and there aren't any objections, I'll set
up framework in the distribution directory, also.
--kevan
