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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:16:36 -0700
From: "Andrew McIntyre" <mcintyre.a@gmail.com>
To: derby-dev@db.apache.org
Subject: Re: 10.2 release in August?
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On 4/26/06, Daniel John Debrunner <djd@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Knut Anders Hatlen wrote:
>
> > You make valid points, and I wholeheartedly agree that we should do a
> > better job with documenting our snapshots. But, as I'm sure you know,
> > alpha quality snapshots cannot be used in production.
>
> Yes, but we want the feedback early so we can fix bugs before people use
> the software in production systems.
>
> If you want feedback on SUR then I strongly encourage you to post a
> 10.2alpha snapshot that contains SUR, write an intro/overview that
> explains what functionality you want people to test, point them to the
> SUR documentation, and spread the word through the derby-user list and
> any other avenues you want. We all probably need to be more pro-active
> about encouraging feedback on new features, I'm not sure pushing for a
> release is the correct way to do that.

+1

Same goes for JDBC 4.0, too. It would be good for people outside of
derby-dev to be looking at these features.

andrew