On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Milinda Pathirage < milinda.pathir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to my experience with Axis2 and Axis2/C releases, we first do the > branching and doing some RCs based on that branch. If users and developers > report bugs in RCs we fixed them and do another RC. Finally, if every one > happy about the latest RC we doing the release based on that. the axis2 > release process is described here at > http://ws.apache.org/axis2/release-process.html. I think it's good if we > can > have unified release process like that for ODE. WDYT? > The problem here is around release candidates. When you choose to promote a RC to "final", either you have to re-vote on the new binaries that have been rebuilt (removing the RC from the binaries name) or what you release isn't necessarily exactly what people really voted on. The latter is problematic. The former involves further delays, a heavier process, ... Matthieu > > Thanks, > Milinda > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Ciaran <ciar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Assaf Arkin <ar...@intalio.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Alex Boisvert <boisv...@intalio.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > The confusion comes from the fact that we pseudo-released 1.3. It > > should > > > > have been a RC1. > > > > > > > > I don't think it's a good idea to use version number without > qualifiers > > > if > > > > they are not real releases. Now version 1.3 has been "released" but > > > > there's > > > > no mention of it on the web site, there was no vote, etc. > > > > > > > > > The question is: does anyone have a copy they're using, thinking it's > the > > > official 1.3 release? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The first question many people will have when they download 1.3.1 is > > > "What > > > > happened to 1.3?" > > > > > > > > > 1.3.1 > > > * Fixed issue with packaging, new version no. to remove confusing with > > > pulled-back release 1.3. > > > > > > 1.3 > > > * Pulled back due to issue with packaging. > > > > > > Assaf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > alex > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Matthieu Riou < > > matthieu.r...@gmail.com > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Alex Boisvert < > boisv...@intalio.com > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Matthieu Riou < > > > matthieu.r...@gmail.com > > > > >wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >>> PS: Did you mean "Cut a new 1.3 release" ? > > > > >>>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Mmh no, I've already cut 1.3 and if we re-release it's going to > be > > a > > > > new > > > > >>> version number, otherwise we'll end up with some confusion. Hence > > > > 1.3.1. > > > > >>> > > > > >> > > > > >> I guess I'm already confused... :-| 1.3 was not officially > > released > > > so > > > > >> where's the harm? > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > A few people already downloaded it and tried it. That's a first > > chance > > > of > > > > > confusion. And later when we'll ask "which version are you > running?" > > > and > > > > the > > > > > answer is 1.3, which 1.3 does that mean? Version numbers are cheap. > > > > > > > > > > I remember we had a similar discussion some time ago on this ML > about > > > 1.2 > > > > > or 1.1, we re-released the same version but the consensus back then > > was > > > > that > > > > > it was "wrong" :) > > > > > > > > > > Matthieu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> alex > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't mind as long as *something* is released <g>... although today our > > testing has flagged up some issues around XSL in BPEL that used to work, > > still trying to diagnose :( > > - Cj. > > > > > > -- > http://mpathirage.com > http://wso2.org "Oxygen for Web Service Developers" > http://wsaxc.blogspot.com "Web Services With Axis2/C" >
