On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Karl Pauls <karlpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:08 PM, ant elder <antel...@apache.org> wrote: >> Well IMHO i don't think this release demonstrates that the poddling >> has an understanding of making or reviewing ASF releases and thats the >> point of requiring releases during incubation. > > So you want us to do a new release? Fine, whatever, we can just roll a > new release which has the source distribution configured. That was a > mistake in the first place as it makes the bundles not easily > individually buildable. > > However, we still will not have a combined source release as we want > to be able to release our bundles individually. Is that the resolution > then? All we have to do is a do a micro release with the source > distribution configured on a per artifact level? >
I agree the requirement for a single source release doesn't seem totally clear, I've said I think you should have one and so has sebb, it would be good to hear what other Incubator PMC people think. I think you need one for two main reasons: 1) The ASF deals with source and the releases are how users get hold of that source. If a user is going to do development with the released ACE source they likely aren't going to be able to do very much useful with just single things like org.apache.ace.repository.imp. At the very least they're probably going to want org.apache.ace.repository.api too but likely there is a big network of the 60 something ACE modules that anyone doing most non-trivial ACE development is going to want. One source distribution makes this easy, making them have to download them all separately isn't particularly practical. That https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ace/trunk/ is structured so the ASF committers can work with them as one single buildable checkout i think shows thats true. 2) If there is only individually buildable source for each jar how are people really going to verify that the release is actually buildable and the artifacts match the SVN tag source when reviewing and voting on release votes? No one reviewing is really likely to download 60 separate distros and build them all one by one are they? ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
