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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:03:13 +0530
From: "Ruchith Fernando" <ruchith.fernando@gmail.com>
To: axis-dev@ws.apache.org, chinthaka@opensource.lk
Subject: Re: [axis2] release planning
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On 12/21/06, Eran Chinthaka <chinthaka@opensource.lk> wrote:
> While agreeing with all the comments, let me disclose one more dimension
> for this.
>
> Axis2 depends on various other projects like Woden, XmlShema, Axiom,
> etc., For us to achieve what Sanjiva had suggested, then we should have
> a plan for WS project, as a whole, at least among whatever connected
> projects.
>
> So I feel this is something that we might need help from all the other
> projects and should be taken in to the PMC as well.

I agree with Chinthaka ...  So shall we discuss this in general@ws.a.o ?

Thanks,
Ruchtih

>
> -- Chinthaka
>
> Ajith Ranabahu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > As much a fan I am for 'release early release often', I have a feeling
> > that two months of development may not yield enough changes to fully
> > constitute a release (just a feeling though). So would it be sensible
> > to do 4 month develop/test/release cycle rather than a 3 month one ?
> > (3 months development ,1 month test/bugfix/document altogether 3
> > releases per year)
> > The time gap allows the gathering of more usecases and gives people
> > room to play around. By the time we get to the next 'bug fix' stage,
> > people would have played around with the earlier release and found all
> > the issues.
> >
> > Ajith
> >
> > On 12/19/06, Deepal Jayasinghe <deepal@opensource.lk> wrote:
> >> I am big +1 for this approach.
> >> Let's start that process immediately after 1.1.1 release .
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Deepal
> >>
> >> Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> >>
> >> >Folks, I'd like to suggest that we try to do 3-monthly releases .. with
> >> >2 months of development and one more of wrapping up / packaging. I'm
> >> >motivated to suggest this after the debacle of the 1.1 release .. we
> >> >spent more than *6 months* releasing it and to me that's just crazy.
> >> >
> >> >Release early, release often is an important open source mantra. Given
> >> >that we're still in a fairly rapid innovation mode, this is even more
> >> >important.
> >> >
> >> >This also will force us to work thru a bit of a roadmap so users know
> >> >what features to expect in what version (to whatever extent possible to
> >> >do that in an open source project .. I'm not suggesting we plan
> >> >everything).
> >> >
> >> >Thoughts?
> >> >
> >> >Sanjiva.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >> Deepal
> >> ................................................................
> >> "The highest tower is built one brick at a time"
> >>
> >>
> >>
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