On Feb 17, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Kevin Menard wrote:
>
>> Fair enough. What I was hoping to achieve was some idea of when
>> to cut
>> a release. Right now we sorta just wing it. When enough issues are
>> closed someone proposes the vote and we go from there. What might be
>> nice is knowing what open issues need to be fixed before we release
>> 2.0.3 and what can wait until a 2.0.4.
>
> From experience I am skeptical about that. We sort of tried this
> before, and it never really worked because of the volunteer nature
> of the project. The most honest thing to do would be to leave "Fix
> Version" blank, until the fix is actually ready to be committed.
That's been my experience as well with open source projects. Winging
it might not be the best for users but seems to work in practice. And
anyone who really really really wants a bug fixed can volunteer to
fix it.
Craig
>
> Currently we may set it to "3.0", which is vague enough to give us
> breathing space. Presetting it to 3.0M1 or anything as specific
> will be too optimistic and in most cases - misleading.
>
> Andrus
>
Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
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