This prompts me to ask a general question.
Are there any plans post 2.1 to separate a development branch of jBoss
from the stable branch?
The reason I bring this up is that there have been various points when
bugs found in version 2.0 have been fixed in the CVS repository, but
that repository has been unsuitable for production (due to the addition
of new features and the refactoring of existing designs). While it's
always possible to fetch the original 2.0 code and patch it up to fix
the bug, it would be much easier to users of jBoss if the could simply
get version 2.0.1
I think that jBoss 2 was a production-ready release, and was rather
surprised that full scale development continued after its release
without any mechanism like this to allow bugfix releases in the interum.
This lack of a 'stable branch' (if you will) also makes it more
difficult for me to advocate the use of jBoss for a production
environment - telling my boss (who has a technical background) "jBoss is
a great development environment and the releases are really solid." will
lead to the question "How are they about bugfixes." OK, I can answer
"Well, I can patch up the production server!" won't quite cut it. Having
that discussion with a client could be a career limiting move.
Please understand that I mean no criticism of the good work that all of
the JBoss developers are doing, and I hope you understand my regrets
that I haven't had the time to contribute materially myself. I do think
that by adopting a bit of formality in terms of development vs. stable
releases, we (the jBoss community) can make the jBoss suite of tools far
more compelling to a far wider audience.
peace, love, and Good Code,
danch
Aaron Mulder wrote:
>
> Yes, sure. If you're really considering making 2.1, is there any
> chance we could cut another beta first? I'd like to float the new
> Connectors and Minerva for a week or more to get the kinks out. In any
> case, if you could give us until Monday before you build anything, that
> would be appreciated.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, marc fleury wrote:
> > Please try to put CVS back in shape soon, I will be doing 2.1 packaging soon
