On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Simone Tripodi wrote: > > > Hi all guys, > > I would like to confirm Henri Yandell's concern about the cutting > > releases :( I honestly think we should speak less and practice more > > the "releas early and often" karma because the sad reality is... we've > > been not good on it :( > > My Maven community experience let me totally astonished, we have > > released the fluido-skin in ~160 commits and 1 RC, something that > > would not be possible here. > > [snip] > > Well, I see Fluido from a customer's view in the same category as Tomcat - > you do not release a component where other users build upon API-wise. Even > worse, our components are often used by other third party libraries that > are > used to build applications. *Therefore* we take care. > > See, when I start a global build in our company the reactor contains over > 400 projects. I am quite sure that without dependency management I'd end up > with every single release of commons lang in my local repository that has > ever been made. The only reason why this works, is that all involved people > ever took care that the 1.x to 2.x was binary compatible for years (at > least > for an upgrade). Now, we introduced lang3 and first components depend on it > - which is fine. But I realize that I might not get rid of lang 2.x > probably > for the next couple of years. I am glad, that we have the possibility to > use > lang3 with its up-to-date API, but I am also glad that I currently don't > end > up with lang1, lang2, lang3, ... to lang9 ;-) > This goes both ways. You might have bugs you do not even know about /because/ you do not have lang1, lang2, and so on. Gary > > [snip] > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
