It seems we need to improve the release process and need modifications for Apache branding too. Also we could include modification requested by Hiranya. So I think it's better to on hold transport 1.6.0 release now and resolve above action items.
Thanks ! On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Samisa Abeysinghe <samisa.abeysin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Andreas Veithen <andreas.veit...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Personally, my point of view has always been that instead of trying to >> push last minute changes into a release, we should focus on improving >> the release process (and apply best practices for branch management) >> so that we can produce maintenance releases more often. > > +1. Release often is a good strategy. Last minute changes are always a > headache. > > As part of the release process, the first step should be that, if there are > patches, we should at least apply those and resolve those issues. A patch > available means that, someone spent some time looking into the issue and > figured out a solution. So more often than not, we can trust the solution, > little bit of testing would prove if the fixes are right, and we should > solve those as the first issues for a release. > That was the strategy followed for the Rqampart release we did earlier this > year. > > Samisa... > > -- Sagara Gunathunga Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/ LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@axis.apache.org
