Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Does Simultaneous release mean that w

[Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, gotta through this in there:

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/20900623.jpg

:)

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jesse mcconnell
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jesse McConnell
<jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> it makes _far_ more sense to do it that way then this all or nothing
> setup that is currently the way things are done
>
> It puts way too much pressure on all projects to have resources and
> people available at a certain times to respond to potential issues.
>
> In today's day and age the whole concept of simultaneous release is a
> glaring anachronism really.  The idea of building software where you
> have a 100 moving points and versions and everything is in potential
> flux until some arbitrary date is the way a single company might build
> their software when it is all in house, but the idea of herding a mess
> of open source cats to have everything release all the same time makes
> me chuckle a little bit inside.
>
> The only reason eclipse gets away with it is because osgi lets it get
> away with it, which is also the absolutely scariest aspect of osgi to
> me, the whole idea of versions being loosey-goosey and a mystery shell
> game that p2 lets you get away with when it starts resolving what
> versions will be used when and where and by whom.
>
> Anyway, you guys have done it this way for ages and it basically works
> for you so its fine...just odd and amazing to witness.
>
> cheers,
> jesse
>
>
>
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> jesse mcconnell
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>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Wayne Beaton <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In my mind, "simultaneous release" means that projects all release at the
>> same time (i.e. the same day).
>>
>> Several projects opt to do releases in advance of the actual simultaneous
>> release and basically just coast into the simultaneous release date. I find
>> this a little weird.
>>
>> soa.bpel comes to mind as a for-instance. They did their 1.0
>> release/graduation on May 2/2012.
>>
>> Does anybody else think that this is weird? Do I just need to get over it?
>>
>> Wayne
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