Well I suggest to avoid the term "maintenance" because it triggers all sorts of association in my brain each having a negative connotation. I for myself think the definition of "stable" in the OSS domain is pretty clear, it means it's supposedly well tested and thus probably suitable to be rolled out in a production environment (trying to be conservative here) where "development" on the other hand is the contrary but provides you with bleeding edge features to help you to get a feeling where the current development efforts are heading towards.
Maintenance on the other hand is a term heavily "abused" by big companies and it is associated with retro-style thinking where you role out a release (knowingly it contains bugs & shortcomings) to make profit out of that leftover bugs by "maintaining" a well defined fixture process that would allow you to gain profit out of providing a fixture for each bug and shortcomings of your software. And that's exactly the reason why I don't like the term "maintenance" especially in regards to OSS development because I am certainly convince we OSS folks can do better in this regards e.g. our way of thinking should be forward looking incl. heavily anticipating change instead of retro-style thinking where your focus lies on "maintaining" the status quo :) Cheers Daniel On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > that looks great. > Just one point, at least for me. > > The difference from stable to development is not clear. > > I would have prefer something like "maintenance release" and "development > branch" or so. > > Jean-Louis > > > 2012/6/7 David Blevins <[email protected]> > >> Put together a little system to make it easy to get at our builds from >> Buildbot on Nexus. >> >> http://openejb.apache.org/builds.html >> >> We can also push builds via the openejb-bot on irc with the command >> >> openejb-bot: force build openejb-trunk-deploy >> >> Or >> >> openejb-bot: force build openejb-4-stable-deploy >> >> Should help us deliver fixes and get people to try them out a bit quicker. >> >> Each build page is also hooked up with Google Analytics so we should be >> able to see what kind of demand is there. >> >> This page isn't linked to anywhere on the site yet. Do want to put it >> somewhere, the downloads page perhaps? >> >> Feel free to add links for more stuff that can be downloaded from Nexus. >> The URL format is pretty obvious and can pull anything from the >> org.apache.openejb groupId. >> >> >> -David >> >>
