Re: Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Hi, The important release artifact to check is the source archive, the binary artifacts are mostly a convenience to users. The binaries are irrelevant. OK, I understand, but I don't agree. Most users download the binaries; very few downl

Re: Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, > The important release artifact to check is the source archive, the > binary artifacts are mostly a convenience to users. > The binaries are irrelevant. OK, I understand, but I don't agree. Most users download the binaries; very few download the source code and even less build the binaries

Re: Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Apr 20, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Felix Meschberger wrote: I have a growing concern about our latest releases. Most of the time we barely get the required minimum of 3 +1 votes to release the stuff. Take as an example some recent release vote results: * Jackrabbit 1.3.4 - 3 votes * jackrab

Re: Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-21 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Felix Meschberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a growing concern about our latest releases. Most of the time we > barely get the required minimum of 3 +1 votes to release the stuff. Agreed. Luckily we haven't seen any release votes that could not pass

Re: Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-21 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason that I don't vote very often is because I am not very > comfortable with it. > > I would like to make sure the jar files reflect the source code in the > branch. I would need to compile the source code

Re: Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, The reason that I don't vote very often is because I am not very comfortable with it. I would like to make sure the jar files reflect the source code in the branch. I would need to compile the source code myself using the same compiler (JVM) and compare the jar files in binary mode. It would

Concerns about release vote behaviour

2008-04-20 Thread Felix Meschberger
Hi all, I have a growing concern about our latest releases. Most of the time we barely get the required minimum of 3 +1 votes to release the stuff. Take as an example some recent release vote results: * Jackrabbit 1.3.4 - 3 votes * jackrabbit-core 1.4.2 - 4 votes (of which 1 non-binding)