On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Dean Roehrich wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:57:54AM -0700, Tom Childers wrote: >> Petr, >> >> I have several questions about this project. Since this is an open >> case, I'm changing the cc: to lsarc-ext at sun.com. >> >> I am wondering what requirement we are trying to fill with this >> project. FindBugs is downloadable, gets updated frequently, and is >> not >> prepackaged on any other platform I know of. The version you are >> shipping is already out of date; the 1.3.6 release became available a >> few days ago. > > If frequency of release of the upstream project is a component of > the ARC's > decision to accept or reject said project, then those guidelines > should be > recorded somewhere. We have seen other FOSS cases which admit to > porting the > version which was current at the time of the OSR but are out of date > by the > time the ARC cases are submitted.
Obviously, this is not a part of ARC guidelines. But the question remains, how will the project team keep up the frequent release schedule? And support multiple versions, since there seems to be some dependency between test cases and junit releases? I agree that we have absolutely seen other ARC cases where this becomes a major issue; if we are going to create this dependency, how will we address the issue? -tdc
