I would also like to contribute my frustration with the current build process. It's great the alpha releases are coming out often, but I cannot possibly be testing them at the frequency you guys are currently tagging and voting. I thought the "once a week" alpha was a good idea until it actually happened. If you guys voted once every three weeks, it would be much easier for me to participate. I wonder if others believe the same.
Paul On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@maven.org> wrote: > Let's not beat the dead horse. No one cares. There's not good reason for not > releasing something immediately if there are fixes available. That's just > not the way it works here, that's fine and not a big deal. > > On 2009-11-25, at 7:52 PM, Brett Porter wrote: > >> >> On 26/11/2009, at 6:24 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >>> If ever we really needed to push out builds more frequently I would just >>> do it from Sonatype. I've given up trying to be truly agile at Apache, it's >>> just not going to happen. >> >> I don't understand what the issue is with the current process. Benjamin is >> already getting them out faster than the majority of people will be able to >> test and review them. Any faster and you might as well just be using the CI >> builds for whatever purpose you have in mind. You're not going to be able to >> push out anything from Sonatype that's any more official than those, so what >> benefit does anyone get from a build that loses the frequency of CI builds >> and loses the benefit of being reviewed before publishing? >> >> The rules about not promoting snapshots to users are there for good >> reasons - to make sure the PMC does actually authorize releases and the >> users know what they are getting, and to encourage actually doing releases >> (instead of everyone running their own version of trunk). I don't see any >> upside to a change that loses those. There's no problem pointing individuals >> to the grid for *testing* purposes as far as I know, as long as they know >> what they are getting is not a release and may not work at all. >> >> Thanks, >> Brett >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
