Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Feit
Thanks Cliff! Getting feedback from you on these issues would be a nice bonus for us. I think the main thing is that, along the lines of Noel's comments and advice, if you see anything the Beehive project can do to better apply ASF principles, it would be great for us to hear it. This kind o

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-15 Thread general
Thanks Cliff! Getting feedback from you on these issues would be a nice bonus for us. I think the main thing is that, along the lines of Noel's comments and advice, if you see anything the Beehive project can do to better apply ASF principles, it would be great for us to hear it. This kind of

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-15 Thread Richard Feit
Thanks Cliff! Getting feedback from you on these issues would be a nice bonus for us. I think the main thing is that, along the lines of Noel's comments and advice, if you see anything the Beehive project can do to better apply ASF principles, it would be great for us to hear it. This kind of f

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-15 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 6/11/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Feit wrote: > > This is just a case where we need all the input we can get. > > We'll see if we can get some additional mentoring for you. I believe that > we'll have another volunteer to also spend time helping beehive along. :-)

RE: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Richard Feit wrote: > > > we need all the guidance we can get in achieving that. > > > > How has it been going? Have you had input from the project Mentor(s)? > > Definitely. Craig (McClanahan) has chimed in publicly and privately, > with both solicited and unsolicited advice. He's been great a

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Feit
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Richard Feit wrote: it would be very healthy for us to focus solely on exiting the Incubator. We are totally committed to building a real dev community around Beehive Neither of those was in doubt. :-) we need all the guidance we can get in achieving tha

RE: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Richard Feit wrote: > it would be very healthy for us to focus solely on exiting > the Incubator. We are totally committed to building a real > dev community around Beehive Neither of those was in doubt. :-) > we need all the guidance we can get in achieving that. How has it been going? Have

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Feit
It seems like adding "Incubating" to the name of the release would prevent this from smelling like official ASF code, or even from smelling like fully-baked code. I think we're all for that -- our main goal is to fulfill the requirements for exiting the Incubator, not to languish there doing n

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 6/8/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, versioning schemes such as: > > M.mQB > > where M == major, m == minor, Q in [D:Development, A:Alpha, B:Beta, > R:Release], and B == Build# encode the release type. I supposed that 1.0m1 > represents a milestone. > > In any event, I

RE: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Richard Feit wrote: > I've been a bit hung up on the idea that since Derby has done several > "official releases" from within the Incubator (e.g., Version 10.0.2.1 at > http://incubator.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#Official+Releases I can appreciate that view. I hadn't noticed the use o

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Richard Feit wrote: > I've been a bit hung up on the idea that since Derby has done several > "official releases" from within the Incubator (e.g., Version 10.0.2.1 at > http://incubator.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#Official+Releases > ), Beehive should be able to do the same thing. I thi

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Feit
I've been a bit hung up on the idea that since Derby has done several "official releases" from within the Incubator (e.g., Version 10.0.2.1 at http://incubator.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#Official+Releases ), Beehive should be able to do the same thing. I think a lot of us have been

RE: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff Schmidt wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> It just doesn't make sense to me to tell a community that believes it has >>> a "1.0" quality product that they have to call it a "test snapshot". >> >> Demo? Technology preview? Milestone? Happy Meal? > > If we are keeping a project in incubati

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-07 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 6/7/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It just doesn't make sense to me to tell a community that believes it has >> a "1.0" quality product that they have to call it a "test snapshot". > > Demo? Technology preview? Milestone? Happy Meal? All of those terms (or at least the fi

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-07 Thread Erik Abele
On 07.06.2005, at 22:48, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Demo? Technology preview? Milestone? Happy Meal? Look, maybe this is hard to understand, especially if people are coming from an enviroment focused on code quality first, but this isn't about the state of the code. It is about the state of

RE: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff Schmidt wrote: > Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Minimum+Exit+R equirements > > Note: incubator projects are not permitted to issue an official Release. > > Test snapshots (however good the quality) and Release plans are OK.

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-07 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 6/7/05, Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Minimum+Exit+Requirements > > > Note: incubator projects are not permitted to issue an official Release. > Test snapshots (however good the quality) and Release plans are OK

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Cliff Schmidt wrote: > Here is my opinion on the whole release issue, which has not changed > in 18 months since the first big discussion of releases and incubation > branding. [snip] Maybe folks are confused by this sentence in the 'Minimum Exit Requirements' section. http://incubator.apache.

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-07 Thread Cliff Schmidt
Here is my opinion on the whole release issue, which has not changed in 18 months since the first big discussion of releases and incubation branding. Full Disclosure: While this is my opinion as a member of the Incubator PMC, it is not necessarily the consensus of the PMC. In addition, I was onc

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-01 Thread Eddie ONeil
CIL... > > If I'm messing up terminology > > Oh, the terminology got messed up long ago. LOL :-) Even the term > "Release" has different connotations. It is neutral in the HTTP Server > project (beta and GA releases, for example), whereas Jakarta refers to > Nightly builds, Milestone builds

RE: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Eddie O'Neil wrote: > I've heard a couple of times that it's not possible to do a -final > release from the Incubator, but I've also heard some suggest that > it could be possible. It should not be done, by definition of being in the Incubator. > Didn't Derby do one of these in December 2004 as

Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-06-01 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 30, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Eddie O'Neil wrote: Comments in-line... Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On May 29, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Eddie ONeil wrote: But, I do think that we should complete the current milestone release in order to get something new out there. +1 If you are calling this a

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-31 Thread Eddie O'Neil
CIL... Leo Simons wrote: On 31-05-2005 03:51, "Eddie O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've heard a couple of times that it's not possible to do a -final release from the Incubator, but I've also heard some suggest that it could be possible. Nope. Okay, so I take it there's a differ

Re: releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-31 Thread Leo Simons
On 31-05-2005 03:51, "Eddie O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've heard a couple of times that it's not possible to do a -final > release from the Incubator, but I've also heard some suggest that it > could be possible. Nope. >Didn't Derby do one of these in December 2004 as per: > >

releasing from incubator? -- was: Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-30 Thread Eddie O'Neil
Noel-- I've heard a couple of times that it's not possible to do a -final release from the Incubator, but I've also heard some suggest that it could be possible. Didn't Derby do one of these in December 2004 as per: http://incubator.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#Official+Releases

Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-30 Thread Eddie O'Neil
Comments in-line... Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On May 29, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Eddie ONeil wrote: All-- There has been some confusion publicly and privately about the JSR 181 TCK issues and the WSM part of Beehive. The goals of WSM are to implement the JSR 181 specification and to provid

RE: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir wrote: > Eddie ONeil wrote: > > I do think that we should complete the current milestone > > release in order to get something new out there. > If you are calling this a milestone increment rather than a real > "we're complete and support this" release Which they have to do anyway, since Bee

Re: a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 29, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Eddie ONeil wrote: All-- There has been some confusion publicly and privately about the JSR 181 TCK issues and the WSM part of Beehive. The goals of WSM are to implement the JSR 181 specification and to provide a generic annotation processor for the 181 annota

a beehive release and the JSR 181 TCK issue

2005-05-29 Thread Eddie ONeil
All-- There has been some confusion publicly and privately about the JSR 181 TCK issues and the WSM part of Beehive. The goals of WSM are to implement the JSR 181 specification and to provide a generic annotation processor for the 181 annotations. In addition, there is a layer that implement