On 29.04.2015 23:13, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 29.04.2015 18:42, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Markus Wiesenbacher < >>> mailingl...@codefreun.de> wrote: >>> >>>> You write on your site that GridGain Community Edition powered by Apache >>>> Ignite will have additional bug fixes ... will this version be free? Why >>>> another version and why not bringing those fixes into the general >> Ignite? >>> Community Edition is free and all the fixes in community edition will be >>> available in Apache Ignite. The benefit of the community edition is that >> it >>> can be released more often than the official Apache Ignite release >> endorsed >>> by ASF, so the community can get the bug fixes faster. >> I'm having real trouble understanding this argument. Any bugs would >> first be fixed in Ignite code, yes? Ignite can have an official release >> every hour if you guys are prepared to spend time on that. :) >> > All bugs are fixed in Ignite first, of course. GridGain community edition > just takes the sprint branch of Ignite and can produce a release at any > point, if there are important bug fixes there. Official ASF release, as we > all know, can take up to 2 weeks for voting and, if there are any > rejections, even longer. There are also many other factors that may delay > the official Apache release. > > The only motivation for the community edition is to provide the Ignite user > base with bug fixes much sooner than within 2 weeks.
You're assuming that Ignite will be an incubating podling forever. Is that a self-fulfilling prophecy? :D -- Brane
