Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On May 11, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Felix Meschberger wrote: > >> Carsten and I have been reasoning about the releases in the future, >> mainly the ones for end-users who just want to grab a binary and fire it >> off. >> >> Basically, we will start releasing single bundles using the regular ASF >> release process. This should enable us to release much quicker than with >> big release we have done until now. >> >> For the consumer releases we are talking about 4 projects mainly: >> >> * launchpad/base - contains the launcher code, Felix framework >> and the OSGi core and compendium libraries. >> >> * launchpad/bundles - a very simple project to just pack together >> existing bundles >> >> * launchpad/app, launchpad/webapp - projects to create final app >> and web app from the base and bundles projects >> >> So to release a "consumer product" we update the launchpad/bundles >> project with all the bundles we want to include and prepare the releases >> of the launchpad/bundles, launchpad/app and launchpad/webapp projects. >> >> I know this is kind of "weird" in the Apache World, but in essence these >> releases are not mainly targeted at developers and "manual builders" but >> at consumers, who just want to grab-and-run it. >> >> WDYT ? > > Apache only releases source code packages. Those other things you build > are not releases -- they are binaries that individuals build and upload. Yes, that's right - now, we think that even for those things voting etc. is a good thing. While legaly everything might be correct, but I don't think that users are really able (or willing) to distinguish between a release (source) and a downloadable binary. So it makes sense that those binaries are checked and handled properly as well.
Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler cziege...@apache.org
