That was just my feeling. Then, if it's ok for everybody, let's just keep it :)
As a side note and as far as I saw, both are snapshots. JLouis 2012/6/7 dsh <[email protected]> > 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 > >> > >> >
