On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's really a good question. I'm using apache projects a lot but I've > never downloaded a single source release since ages, mostly using svn to > checkout / build, or maven source jars for debugging within the ide as you > said. > I know it's a requirement, but it's not very useful for certain kind of > projects imho.. > > Plus if I am going to make a bug fix or add a feature that I intend to contribute back I will do it as a diff patch which I generate from version control. So having the sources in a release is worthless for me. Knowing the tag is what I need to work the source, produce a patch and submit that back to the community. Regards, Alex
