[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Costin, could you please move your upload directory for these nightly builds to
> > someplace else? The problem is that you're confusing the people who wonder why
> > the nightly builds have nothing to do with the current (3.2) code release.
>
> I can move them to tomcat-3.3 - I wanted to avoid confusing people and use
> the old directory.
>
> I don't see why anyone would expect 3.2 to be in the nightly builds - the
> nightly builds are used the same way as before, for the current
> _development_ release ( same thing happened after tomcat3.1 was tagged,
> and the nightly builds started to be used for 3.2, etc).
>
> > In their place, I can turn on the publishing of the 3.2 nightly builds that I'm
> > creating but just not uploading.
>
> What is the reason of doing nightly builds of the previous release ? 3.2
> is not in "development" mode, i.e no no features, etc - the nightly builds
> make sense for the development release where things change and you need
> this tool to make sure you don't get regressions or broken builds.
>
> My understanding is that 3.2 is released, and an eventual 3.2.1 will have
> only minor bug fixes, no new features or other "developments".
>
Yes it's for bug fixes, but people (especially non-CVS users) want to be able to test
them without going through the pain of having to cut betas all the time.
>
> If I remember corectly, this is the rule we agreed upon - as soon as a
> version is "feature freeze" ( that happened 3-4 months ago for 3.2), the
> development continues on the main branch, bug fixes that goes into the
> branch are merged into the development tree, etc.
>
> Costin
Craig
