At this stage, are we allowed to use the trademark Java in the name since we haven't passed the TCK?
Alex. On 08/03/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Sian January wrote: > Hi Geir, > > Just a quick thought about the names. I like the idea of having > milestone > releases (M1, M2 etc). However if the release is called "Apache > Harmony Pre > M1" or "Apache Harmony M1", and then we want to use M1, M2 etc for > future > versions like Java 6 and Java 7 how will we tell the difference > between the > Java 5 M1 release and the Java 6 M1 release? That's a good question... I think that once we get out the door, maybe we call it Apache Harmony Java SE 5 M1 or Apache Harmony Java SE 6 M1 or Apache Harmony v5 M1 or Apache Harmony v6 M1 or I dunno... :) If you have another idea, go for it :) I just wanted to give us names to start using for sorting bugs, targeting features, and working towards. geir > > Thanks, > > Sian > > > > On 07/03/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> This is a new thread, building on the thread that Mikhail started, to >> get away from some of the shoals we encountered. >> >> I'd like to propose we start a formal release schedule : >> >> * Monthly releases, targeted for the last day of each >> month. (IOW, avoid the April 1 release) >> >> * For some set of platforms that we support >> >> * Regression free (if we support an app or feature in release X, >> we support it in X+1 unless we agree in a vote to >> regress). >> >> A lot of good things will come from starting down this road : >> >> 1) We can start putting together the process to decide on "code >> freeze", building and testing, etc. >> >> 2) This will allow us to do JIRA triage that is meaningful - we can >> pre-set the releases in JIRA, and bucket the JIRAs into the release >> buckets >> >> 3) We can chart out what we want to do in Wiki (and then harvest for >> the site) what we hope to accomplish in each release. Up to now, the >> roadmap was very high-level, and for the most part, we've been >> amazingly good at following it (especially considering it was a SWAG >> done in response to a question I got on a concall once...) I would >> love to see us chart out the remainder of the API, some sense of VM >> feature (like "switch to GCv5"), and a set of apps we plan to have >> running. >> >> An important element to this will be naming. I think that as we're >> just figuring this out, we should avoid date-oriented names (like >> "March", "April"...) so we can shift the schedule as need be. While >> I like the "M1, M2, M3" scheme, I personally utterly detest the >> "1.0- >> M1" approach, as it ties your hands horribly. I think that we should >> avoid prefixing a version number for now, and use version numbers >> when we get the JCK and can plan out a 0.5, 0.6, 0.7... to 1.0 train >> >> So it could be >> >> Apache Harmony Pre M1 >> Apache Harmony Pre M2 >> Apache Harmony Pre M3 >> ... >> >> for now. This is really common and banal. Boring.... >> >> We're building on the shoulders of giants here, and I think it would >> be nice to honor those that came before us. Here's a list of great >> people in the history of Java who I'd love to honor, as many are my >> heros : >> >> 1) "Hamilton" (Graham, The Enforcer) >> 2) "Bloch" (Josh, API hero) >> 3) "Gafter" (Neil, API hero) >> 4) "Bracha" (Gilad, VM hero) >> 5) "Click" (Cliff Click, hotspot hero) >> 6) "Gingel" (Rob, Chief Engineer, and guy who grokked OSS) >> 7) "Detlefs" (David, GC hero) >> 8) "Lindholm" (Tim, VM spec guy) >> 9) "Yellin" (Frank, VM spec guy) >> >> Thoughts? Comments? Flames? >> >> geir >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with > number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire > PO6 3AU
