Paul, Thanks for the quick response,
Just trying to help, please don't read it as impatience. If I understand correctly enterprise product developers like us are bringing a whole new set of concerns to the table, things that haven't and probably won't be priorities for companies interested in deploying it to existing web communities they own. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Paul Lindner <lind...@inuus.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Boyer <mang...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm having some confusion. >> >> So I was wondering some things : >> >> 1. Is there any reason that hte project download site can't include >> downloads for the 1.1 BETA3 and BETA4, as well as the current trunk? >> > > We need to get these voted on and officially approved. I actually did the > offical build of BETA4 but have not called for a vote yet. It should pass > the IPMC with the latest sets of adjustments. > > >> 2. Could we remove SNAPSHOT word from releases generated via a tag >> (BETA3 and BETA4)? >> > > the tags have the correct version (aka, no -SNAPSHOT). Trunk always has a > -SNAPSHOT > > >> 3. Could the BETA5 tag be removed from the trunk only >> shindig-1.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT? >> > > Possibly. The maven release plugin tends to get a little confused in this > state though.. > > >> 4. Could the tagging process for a BETA or RC or for the final >> version include generating artifacts and deploying them to the maven >> repository and to the download site? >> > > Definitely yes! Right now BETA4 is staged here: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheshindig-006/ > > >> There's some messiness here, and when I pointed someone at BETA3, they >> ended up with a different war file. We tracked it to the maven site. >> >> I know when I first generate BETA4 for inclusion in some of our work, >> the generated war was completely different than the one I generate >> now. That was non-obvious at first. > > > I'll have the official vote for BETA4 this weekend and we should have > something on the official maven repo sometime this week if all goes well. > > Thanks for your patience. > > paul > -- David S Boyer mang...@gmail.com 703.499.8728(h) 703.408.5395(m)
