Re: [rt-pmc] Gemini subproject situation

[Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

as there must have been development after the M1 release, what about
making a 1.0.0.M2 released version and then just indicate that it is
eol and not being maintained any longer

seems the easiest thing to do osgi wise

jesse

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jesse mcconnell
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 16:36, Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not in favor of releasing anything from incubation unless it is mature
> and has plans to be maintained and evolve in the future.  My vote would be
> 2).  My rational is that you have not really ever made a real release of
> this stuff so it is fine to degrade the version to 0.9.
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> Unless I am mistaken it sounds like very few, if any, would be effected by
> degrading the version of this bundle when you make the first release as an
> incubation project.  Am I missing something?  Do others in the community
> view the 1.0.0 M1 contents as a released version of the Gemini Naming
> project?
>
> Tom
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>  |michael keith <michael.keith@xxxxxxxxxx>                                                                                                          |
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>  |01/17/2012 04:10 PM                                                                                                                               |
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>  |[rt-pmc] Gemini subproject situation                                                                                                              |
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> We have a question in the Gemini project that we would like to ask the
> PMC to weigh in on.
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> The Gemini Naming project was a Gemini subproject that was never
> intended to be maintained much, but that some people find useful. It is
> the implementation of the OSGi JNDI spec that might not ever be updated
> because there will likely not be a need. Bob Nettleton from Oracle wrote
> and led the project until about a year ago when he was no longer able to
> be involved. He made a 1.0.0 M1 milestone available. The project never
> left incubation when most of the other Gemini subprojects did.
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> We have had some people ask for a release and one suggestion was that we
> put out a 0.9 release and leave the project in incubation. However,
> since a 1.0.0 M1 milestone was already made available it would seem like
> the wrong choice to put out a lower 0.9 release at this stage. I always
> figured that projects should not release a 1.0 while in incubation, but
> the alternative is to graduate the project, release a 1.0, and
> effectively not do any development on it. It should be released, but
> which of these options, or some alternative option, do people think
> would be the best course of action?
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> 1) Bring the project to graduation (even though there may not be much
> development on it after that point) and release a 1.0
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> 2) Leave the project in incubation and put out a 0.9 release, even
> though a 1.0 M1 is already available
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> 3) Leave the project in incubation and put out a 1.0 release
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> Whatever choice is the right one would be fine, we just don't know what
> that is.
> My vote would probably be for (1), but as the Gemini project lead I am
> somewhat interest-conflicted :-).
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> Thanks,
> -Mike
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