From general-return-11595-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Thu Oct 19 11:08:48 2006 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 89826 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2006 11:08:44 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2006 11:08:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 61750 invoked by uid 500); 19 Oct 2006 11:08:42 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 61572 invoked by uid 500); 19 Oct 2006 11:08:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 61561 invoked by uid 99); 19 Oct 2006 11:08:41 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:08:41 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=10.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of robertburrelldonkin@gmail.com designates 66.249.92.175 as permitted sender) Received: from [66.249.92.175] (HELO ug-out-1314.google.com) (66.249.92.175) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:08:40 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so500209uge for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:08:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=E0YbDgLb0XAX3VDJoIkde7fhtfWocBjYszChMVIICO44SpWGShr1IA7TNhZ/nwd+zrllIXhl0Qtf0fEc/1YBuLyjod/vFjNab3rgyCt4wgOoqRshx0AvwG9RLi2TygtlDS0CLhYG3dz3sO/8ZvCegMZsb7ZBojfCjLMkBzBWQ2Q= Received: by 10.67.121.15 with SMTP id y15mr13507484ugm; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.30.13 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:08:18 +0100 From: "robert burrell donkin" To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [discussion] Harmony podling to ask for vote for graduation In-Reply-To: <2B3B9B45-E381-4C0D-BF44-297D6E0B19A4@leosimons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45345FA6.6030605@pobox.com> <254F7CBE-27B6-4C62-B5C5-B0EC32D3332D@gbiv.com> <45359271.1090802@pobox.com> <200610181300.38913.niclas@hedhman.org> <4535B8D6.3060306@pobox.com> <6cca3db30610180412l5666f0e3x42661964256f6c15@mail.gmail.com> <2B3B9B45-E381-4C0D-BF44-297D6E0B19A4@leosimons.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On 10/19/06, Leo Simons wrote: > On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:42 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: > > On 10/18/06, Greg Stein wrote: > >> You said that you have run Tomcat on top of Harmony. Why can't you > >> produce a release such that I can throw the Tomcat jar at it, too? > >> Sure, it is a developer release, but it let's non-Harmony folks play > >> with your project. > > > > i'd like to give harmony a spin as well :-) > > > >> Is there a specific problem with producing a developer release? > > > > releases come in many forms :-) > > > > it's usual to think of an easy-to-use ready-to-run binary aimed at end > > users called something like httpd-2.0.59. i agree that harmony isn't > > ready for something like that nor would the effort of producing > > something like that be at all worthwhile. > > > > but at an essential level, all that's require is to vote, tag the > > source and create a tarball of the tagged source. > > > > harmony already does something similar for daily snapshots. IMHO the > > next step would be to start cutting milestones each week or two so > > they can be picked up with a little more certainty than the daily > > snapshots. perhaps name them after the week they were cut > > (harmony-M3406, say). > > > > i think harmony is more than ready to take this step. > > I think so too. The harmony community seems a to be hesitating a bit. > "Let's just fix , tweak . Oh, lets fix . And > ...." > > Robert for harmony release manager! but i think that harmony should produce source only releases (and leave the binaries to downstreamers) > /ducks /ducks - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org