On 21 November 2011 14:41, ant elder <antel...@apache.org> wrote: > 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
+1, agree totally, was just composing a similar reply. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
