Hi all, Leaving aside the question of whether this is really an issue or not, I'm not sure I follow the logic about simply removing features from the release if there are issues with them, especially core features like distributed deployment which are decisions made early on by deploying sites.
If there's a major feature and it's not working but you still want a release, then it should be called a development snapshot or a preview or something. I would say most of the software world would understand that a release means that everything that worked in the previous version continues to work unless there's a very specific plan to deprecate and remove features over several versions, discussed in advance with sites running the software, and with migration plans to alternate solutions. Indeterminacy about features would seem to signal to potential adopters that all the releases so far are just development releases and Matterhorn is not production-ready, which I'm assuming is not the message we want to convey. Cheers Stephen -- Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town http://www.cet.uct.ac.za Email / IM (Jabber/XMPP): [email protected] Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 >>> Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> 8/3/2011 4:49 PM >>> Hi all, I'm intending to create a new release candidate for 1.2 either this afternoon or tomorrow morning. We have one outstanding release blocker which is currently assigned to no one: http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-8022 Encoding failure with multiple workers / Unnecessary File Downloads I'm inclined to ignore it because it's a bit unclear as to whether it is still an issue, and then try and reverify it in 1.2. ** As per discussions, if no one comes forward to fix the issue and it persists throughout release candidates the feature will be removed from the release. In this case the feature is distributed deployment. Please look at this issue if it comes up after RC 7! ** I'll update at tomorrow mornings meeting, Chris -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________ ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. This e-mail is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If the e-mail has reached you in error, please notify the author. If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail you may not use, disclose, copy, redirect or print the content. If this e-mail is not related to the business of UCT it is sent by the sender in the sender's individual capacity. ### _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
