Tom Childers wrote: > 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 shipping is already out of date; the 1.3.6 release became available a 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 version which was current at the time of the OSR but are out of date 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
We do not plan to support multiple versions. We may change it if it is a requirement. So is it usual that developer needs to have more versions of findbugs installed? Can you describe the dependency between test cases and junit releases? Thanks! Petr
