I release my plugins weekly within my comp. But I'd like to see maven's plugin release more often as well.
-Dan On 2/17/06, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to discuss the policy for releasing plugins. My > impression is, that most plugin developers policy can be described as > follows: > > - Be careful. We could break something. > - There's a change. Goes to SVN. Fine! > - Some weeks later. Nothing happened. Ok, possibly it works. We'll > publish a "beta 1" > version. > - More weeks later. Perhaps its time for an RC1. > - Months later. Release > > I appreciate such a behavior for large projects like the Maven core. I > don't think so for plugins, however. Plugins have a completely > different characteristic: > > - They are small components, typically maintained by one or two > programmers only. > - They can be controlled. > - Publishing them doesn't take much work. > - If a problem should be found, it can be fixed really fast. > > In other words, a better policy for plugins seems to me to be the > "release early, release often" mantra, which we know from Perl > modules. Indeed, they can very well be compared. > > What do you think? > > Jochen > > -- > Whenever you find yourself on the side of the > majority, it is time to pause and reflect. > (Mark Twain) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
