The Muse team is on a similar development cycle and would definitely benefit if Axis2 took a "release often" approach. It would be much easier to support the latest version of Axis2 right after its release because the overall change from release to release would be smaller (for minor versions, anyway).
This is also helpful for those that want to redistribute Axis2 but depend on a bug fix or improvement that is only in a nightly build. If Axis2 is on a three-month cycle, users know that they can expect the change in an stable release in a month or so and update their schedules accordingly; without the cycle, they are forced to gamble with their schedule more (and manager-types usually frown on that kind of gambling ;) ). Dan Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/21/2006 11:41:57 AM: > I proposed that we do 3 monthly release-early-release-often releases for > Axis2 and Eran pointed out that we need to discuss this on general@ as > there are other projects that axis2 depends on which would also need to > release like that. > > So, thoughts? > > Sanjiva. > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ > Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > ----- Message from Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 19 Dec > 2006 20:20:37 +0530 ----- > > To: > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Subject: > > [axis2] release planning > > Folks, I'd like to suggest that we try to do 3-monthly releases .. with > 2 months of development and one more of wrapping up / packaging. I'm > motivated to suggest this after the debacle of the 1.1 release .. we > spent more than *6 months* releasing it and to me that's just crazy. > > Release early, release often is an important open source mantra. Given > that we're still in a fairly rapid innovation mode, this is even more > important. > > This also will force us to work thru a bit of a roadmap so users know > what features to expect in what version (to whatever extent possible to > do that in an open source project .. I'm not suggesting we plan > everything). > > Thoughts? > > Sanjiva. > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ > Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
