I agree - it would be really nice to have a sample bundle (along with plugin samples) released with each major geronimo release. This can be very good from a user perspective so that they have something to get them started.
Lin On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Joe Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kevan Miller wrote: > > > > On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Joe Bohn wrote: > > > >> > >> Is there a plan on how to release the samples for 2.1 and forward? It > >> looks like the changes in the build structure have necessitated that > >> we do something to release samples independently (or perhaps it was > >> other changes). In past releases it looks like the samples were > >> built, voted on, and released as part of the Geronimo release itself. > >> However, they are no longer included under our configs with the > >> restructure and hence they were not included in the process. > >> > >> Should we create a tag for the 2.1 samples (thus far there are no tags > >> in the samples svn (see > >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/ )? Do we need to > >> create release candidates and vote on releasing samples now? > >> > >> I ran into this because I took a first pass at generating a new > >> geronimo-plugins.xml for 2.1 yesterday since the old version was still > >> referencing 2.1-SNAPSHOT for all of the plugins. To include the > >> samples I built > >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/branches/2.1/ but > >> the poms there are versioned as 2.1-SNAPSHOT and are dependent upon > >> the Geornimo 2.1-SNAPSHOT release. > > > > Definitely something we need to do. Probably should have been something > > we did concurrently with a major release (e.g. 2.1). > > I agree. I think this is something that we need to be doing concurrent > with a release in the future. At the moment things are kinda broken > from a user perspective. They can't install the 2.1-SNAPSHOT plugins on > the 2.1 server. This looks especially bad since we include links in the > welcome page ("/") to download and install the samples which currently > fail. BTW, I tried to just change the dependent geronimo release in > geronimo-plugins.xml for the samples but they still would not install > because there are dependencies are missing (looks like there are > references to non-existent org.apache.geronimo.configs car files). > > Joe > > > > > > > So, I certainly think we should be tagging sample releases, they should > > be dependent upon G 2.1, and they need to be voted on. > > > > --kevan > > > > > >
