Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi Luc. > > I have to agree with James here. However, if the mysterious > > team-who-wishes-to-contribute is dead set on 6 month release cycles, > > it is certainly within their power to make sure 4.5 months ahead of > > time that every open JIRA issue has a patch attached, and to nag the > > tea

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Hi, Le 27/03/2012 21:08, Matt Benson a écrit : > I have to agree with James here. However, if the mysterious > team-who-wishes-to-contribute is dead set on 6 month release cycles, > it is certainly within their power to make sure 4.5 months ahead of > time that every open JIRA issue has a patch a

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread Matt Benson
I have to agree with James here. However, if the mysterious team-who-wishes-to-contribute is dead set on 6 month release cycles, it is certainly within their power to make sure 4.5 months ahead of time that every open JIRA issue has a patch attached, and to nag the team incessantly for the followi

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread James Carman
I don't have a problem saying something like "we will attempt to release at least twice per year." I don't think it would be wise to say, "we will have a release on 1/1 and 7/1 every year." Release early! Release often! Have 12 releases a year if you want. Just don't promise them. On Tue, Mar

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hello, maybe we could mix both approaches. Following James, releases could be feature-based, using the JIRA system. If after 3 months, the goal is reached, we could release. However, as Gilles suggested we could at least do our best to at least try and release twice a year. This means that about

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread James Carman
As opposed to calendar-based release scheduling, I would suggest perhaps using a more feature-based approach. For transparency, use JIRA's target version (or whatever it's called) to schedule which releases will contain fixes for which issues. The reason I'm hesitant to put something on the calen

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I am -1 to publishing any sort of release schedule to which we would > be held accountable. I was speaking for Commons Math. IMHO, it is a disservice to the project to have releases more than 12 months apart, as it has just been the case. This gives the feeling that the code is stable and i

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread James Carman
I am -1 to publishing any sort of release schedule to which we would be held accountable. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > Hello. > >> > [...] >> > >> > But one question I would like to ask is what is the process for >> > arranging for a new release of Commons-Math. I ask

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. > > [...] > > > > But one question I would like to ask is what is the process for > > arranging for a new release of Commons-Math. I ask because we have > > 6-month release schedule for our mathematical and utility library, which > > makes use of Commons Math, and we would like to see whet

Re: Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-24 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Hassan Siddiqui a écrit : > Dear Commons-Math developers Hi Hassan, > > My name is Hassan Siddiqui and I am working on a Java scientific project > that involves a significant amount of numerical analysis code. There are > some 300+ developers and scientist involved in thi

Commons-Math release schedule

2012-03-23 Thread Hassan Siddiqui
Dear Commons-Math developers My name is Hassan Siddiqui and I am working on a Java scientific project that involves a significant amount of numerical analysis code. There are some 300+ developers and scientist involved in this project. We are using Commons-Math already to an extent but we do