Andy
Is it worthwhile for us as a PMC to try to adopt a planned regular release cycle? This could either be dates when we aim to produce a new release e.g. 1st of the month each quarter or it could just be a general aim of a new release within N months of the previous release e.g. 3 months after the previous release. The latter might be a better option for us as it gives us the flexibility to make a new release sooner if there are important changes/fixes we want to get out to users but also gives users some guarantee of when to expect a new release. Now there may be times when we can't meet the target because we have less time to devote to the project, larger refactors/new features may require more significant testing and hardening periods etc. but it might be nice for us to aim to do this. Rob On 10/4/12 12:19 PM, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote: >See a message this week: >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jena-dev/201209.mbox/%3C50687D0E. >7000002%40apache.org%3E > >On 04/10/12 17:30, Simon Helsen wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> sorry, I am coming back with this topic, but I don't think the >>discussion >> finished last time. The only thing I can say is that from IBM's point of >> view, we can only ever really deal with releases. We have the capacity >>to >> some preliminary testing with candidates or overnight builds, but they >> will never get the same coverage as to what we can obtain with a >>release. > >Your last message was: >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jena-dev/201209.mbox/%3COF97EB6EA >7.8F8BE448-ON85257A79.004B4D7D-85257A79.004BD00B%40ca.ibm.com%3E > >The project makes builds available - it is IBM's choice whether to test >them or not. No one is suggesting deploying non-releases. > >Other users are already giving feedback on development builds; some are >deploying them in situations that matter to them. Many users provide >feedback after releases but before is more valuable. > >Are you going to test pre-release if we start a release process? We >have just done a public testing cycle on SDB and it was worked well. > >An open source community is about working together for mutual benefit. > >> So the question remains: what are the 2.7.4 release plans? It has been >> quite a while since 2.7.3 came out. > >Jena 2.7.3 was Aug 07. Less than 2 months. > > Andy > >> >> thanks >> >> Simon >> > >
