Hi Bryan,
Thanks for porting this valuable feature to the 10.2 branch. I have
raised the urgency of DERBY-1765 so that the feature will go out the
door with documentation. I also added this feature to the Buddy-testing
page.
I too am muddling my way forward. I see great value in getting real
users to commodity-test new features as soon as possible, particularly
since the beta effort isn't attracting a lot of attention from our user
community.
Regards,
-Rick
Bryan Pendleton wrote:
>> In the open source world however, by releasing the code and allowing
>> others to use it, the more eyes syndrome means that the "testing by
>> chance" becomes the significant factor, thus the quality increases by
>> releasing it.
>
>
> I completely agree. Release early, release often, get real feedback
> from real users.
>
> Regarding your point about whether there is any additional work planned:
> I don't know of any additional such work on the *code*; however, there is
> documentation work needed, recorded in JIRA as DERBY-1765. I would like
> to contribute to the documentation work but am not going to get to
> that soon.
>
> So if we merge DERBY-119 back to 10.2, it would get released in an
> undocumented fashion, at least until we found the time to address
> DERBY-1765.
>
> Release Manager Rick, do you care to express an opinion here? Anybody
> else?
>
> I am partial to Dan's observations, and my inclination is to go ahead and
> merge DERBY-119 to the 10.2 branch, unless I hear otherwise. So I'll
> put it
> like this: if nobody expresses a contrary opinion in the next 60 hours
> or so,
> I'll merge DERBY-119 back to the 10.2 branch.
>
> Thanks for the good discussion, Dan.
>
> bryan
>
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