Re: [RNG] About RNG-6

2016-09-16 Thread Gilles
Hi. On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 01:38:16 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 15/09/2016 à 16:37, Gilles a écrit : I don't understand "motivations for the API". I just mean a short introduction to the component, something explaining why it exists, its usefulness (performance, randomness quality), the i

Re: [RNG] About RNG-6 (Was: [VOTE][RC1] Release Commons Rng 1.0)

2016-09-16 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 15/09/2016 à 16:37, Gilles a écrit : > I don't understand "motivations for the API". I just mean a short introduction to the component, something explaining why it exists, its usefulness (performance, randomness quality), the implementations supported, etc. > I won't do that. > It was alread

Re: [RNG] About RNG-6 (Was: [VOTE][RC1] Release Commons Rng 1.0)

2016-09-15 Thread Gary Gregory
After scanning this, I am wondering if a smoother path to 1.0 would be really be through a beta or alpha release. The code is all there, any one can look at it. The advantage of a beta release is that it gets pushed out as a ANNOUNCE email and might get more notice. YMMV. Gary On Thu, Sep 15, 20

Re: [RNG] About RNG-6 (Was: [VOTE][RC1] Release Commons Rng 1.0)

2016-09-15 Thread Gary Gregory
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Gilles wrote: > Hi. > > Moving to another thread, as your comments do not belong in > a release vote. > > Many of them could lead to interesting discussions that should > (and could) have happened earlier. > > Indeed, for the record, see > https://issues.apache.

[RNG] About RNG-6 (Was: [VOTE][RC1] Release Commons Rng 1.0)

2016-09-15 Thread Gilles
Hi. Moving to another thread, as your comments do not belong in a release vote. Many of them could lead to interesting discussions that should (and could) have happened earlier. Indeed, for the record, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-6 and the numerous posts which I sent to this