Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>> I'm sceptical about this. Look at the 2.4.x release history: we
>> have had no release since August 2007, yet there has been more than
>> one reason to make more RCs. It's just that no one can spare
>> the full day needed for a 2.4.x release (that's what it took
>> me despite making the release from a NY machine with a blowing
>> fast connection due to the confluence issues, build hiccups,
>> and the plain fact that making all the announcements
>> included in the release procedure takes a lot of time).
>>   
> I had it down to 4 hours; 

Wow... it took me 3 without the raft of announcements, which
required another 1-2 (and then I had to redo the javadocs and
figure out what was breaking aggregation)

> but that was only because we were making 
> releases every month; when you leave
> it alone for a while all the madness starts to creep back in. Personally 
> I am enjoying not bothering people
> about maven versions every month (which is where most of the problems 
> were); but I do feel bad leaving the
> user community without any useful milestones of 2.5.x.
> 
> Last week a version of maven that was predictable was mentioned; perhaps 
> we could look into that
> as an alternative (while it would not migrate away from maven it would 
> get us the benifits).
> 
> Andrea thank you for making 2.4.0;
> - the build hiccups - was there anything interesting?

The javadoc generation thing, see other mail thread

> - I know you tried to sort out the "unsupported" directory; thanks for 
> at least looking at that

Eh... wasted a bit of time looking around for this one too... but
could not see any easy solution.

> - confluence has been really bad lately - perhaps we should migrate to 
> TOPP or Refractions hardware now that both are running a good version of 
> the system. I know confluence has not been Paul Ramsey's best friend in 
> the past; but the more recent version we have installed seems to be 
> doing very well (and a lot better than codehaus).

It's an option indeed... or else we could move to osgeo... wondering
if it's possible to migrate the contents to another wiki without
getting killed by a manual export...

Cheers
Andrea

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