On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, James Turner wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:18:38 -0500 > From: James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A plea for closure > > I've noted, with some dismay, discussion of making major infrastructure > changes to 1.1 pre-release. Now, as much as I'll admit I've snuck a few > new features in under the wire, the levels of destabilization (and > delay) being proposed (especially in regards to gutting the Resource > subsystem) worry me. > > I'm talking to a potential client right now who has held off on moving > to 1.1 "because it's beta." I'm sure we all know companies with the > same attitude. All the nice new toys of 1.1 won't do us as developers > much good until we can deploy them at clients. > Your clients aren't the only ones :-). > There comes a time to drive a stake in the ground where ever you are, > and call it a release. I'd like to propose that, modulo any critical > (and I mean show-stopper) bugs, we're there. > > We all know that 1.1 has been a "Real Soon Now" release for a good long > time now. If we want people to adopt it (or move off of 1.0), it has to > lose the beta tag. > > I'm the new fish in the pond here, but I wanted to put in my +1 for > sticking a fork in the puppy, 'cause it's done. > The last remaining functionality I was interested in adding was switching to commons-resources, and there seems to be a growing consensus against doing that for 1.1 now. Is that still the feeling of the other committers? If so, we should advertise 1.1b3 as a "release candidate" and ask people to throw it at their apps, so we can flush out any remaining bugs. If we did a follow-up RC release in early February, we could probably put 1.1 to bed by the end of February. (Much of the time in between, in addition to bugfixing, will be getting releases of the commons packages we rely on done as well.) > James Turner Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
