I agree - it would be really nice to have a sample bundle (along with
plugin samples) released with each major geronimo release. This can
be very good from a user perspective so that they have something to
get them started.
Lin
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Joe Bohn <joe.bohn@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Kevan Miller wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Joe Bohn wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Is there a plan on how to release the samples for 2.1 and forward? It
> >> looks like the changes in the build structure have necessitated that
> >> we do something to release samples independently (or perhaps it was
> >> other changes). In past releases it looks like the samples were
> >> built, voted on, and released as part of the Geronimo release itself.
> >> However, they are no longer included under our configs with the
> >> restructure and hence they were not included in the process.
> >>
> >> Should we create a tag for the 2.1 samples (thus far there are no tags
> >> in the samples svn (see
> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/ )? Do we need to
> >> create release candidates and vote on releasing samples now?
> >>
> >> I ran into this because I took a first pass at generating a new
> >> geronimo-plugins.xml for 2.1 yesterday since the old version was still
> >> referencing 2.1-SNAPSHOT for all of the plugins. To include the
> >> samples I built
> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/branches/2.1/ but
> >> the poms there are versioned as 2.1-SNAPSHOT and are dependent upon
> >> the Geornimo 2.1-SNAPSHOT release.
> >
> > Definitely something we need to do. Probably should have been something
> > we did concurrently with a major release (e.g. 2.1).
>
> I agree. I think this is something that we need to be doing concurrent
> with a release in the future. At the moment things are kinda broken
> from a user perspective. They can't install the 2.1-SNAPSHOT plugins on
> the 2.1 server. This looks especially bad since we include links in the
> welcome page ("/") to download and install the samples which currently
> fail. BTW, I tried to just change the dependent geronimo release in
> geronimo-plugins.xml for the samples but they still would not install
> because there are dependencies are missing (looks like there are
> references to non-existent org.apache.geronimo.configs car files).
>
> Joe
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> >
> > So, I certainly think we should be tagging sample releases, they should
> > be dependent upon G 2.1, and they need to be voted on.
> >
> > --kevan
> >
> >
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