Any plan for releases?

[Rush Manbert <ru...@manbert.com>]

I know that you guys are busy with development, and I went to the  
incubator status site where I read the Podling Release guidelines, and  
I find them somewhat daunting, but I still need to ask the question.

Is there any plan to start producing official releases of Thrift?

Thanks,
Rush

Re: Any plan for releases?

[Upayavira <uv...@odoko.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:23 -0800, David Reiss wrote:
> I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't feel particularly motivated
> to do a release.  Here at Facebook, we generally build all of our backend
> software against the trunk and "release" whenever we need new features in
> production.  If someone wants to drive this process, I'm happy to answer
> any questions about the origins or license of the code and/or apply patches,
> but I don't think I'll be taking the lead.  In the mean time, simply running
> "make dist" gives you a pretty nice release-style tarball.

At some point, a release needs to be made as a part of the incubation
process. That release (before being released) will be vetted thoroughly
by the Incubator community, and having a release that successfully
passes that will be a significant part of the process of moving towards
graduation.

Also, upon graduation, the principal responsibility of the Thrift
Project Management Committee (PMC) will be to release code. Code in SVN
is not considered released, only code that has been tarballed and voted
on by members of the PMC.

We need to have releasing as a part of the roadmap, and we'll need to
have releasing as a part of what the prospective PMC offers to its
users.

How do we plan to move in that direction?

Upayavira

Re: Any plan for releases?

[David Reiss <dr...@facebook.com>]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't feel particularly motivated
to do a release.  Here at Facebook, we generally build all of our backend
software against the trunk and "release" whenever we need new features in
production.  If someone wants to drive this process, I'm happy to answer
any questions about the origins or license of the code and/or apply patches,
but I don't think I'll be taking the lead.  In the mean time, simply running
"make dist" gives you a pretty nice release-style tarball.

--David

Rush Manbert wrote:
> I know that you guys are busy with development, and I went to the  
> incubator status site where I read the Podling Release guidelines, and  
> I find them somewhat daunting, but I still need to ask the question.
> 
> Is there any plan to start producing official releases of Thrift?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rush