Re: What it will take for a 1.1 release... (was RE: Struts 1.1 Release)

[Thomas Eichberger <we...@java.at>]

I think the same:-)

A beta 3 would help us with the customer.

Thomas



At 11:08 17.10.2002 +0100, Vilya Harvey wrote:
> > >Because of all these having been incorporated, I think Struts is now way
> > >past something that should have been called a 1.1 release. According to
>the
>...
> > Well, a little perspective is necessary here -- Tiles and Validator
> > have been in the 1.1 mix since well before 1.1.b2.  I do believe that
> > the EL taglibs were added after 1.1b2, so maybe there's a bit of
> > feature creep -- but they seem real handy if you have the liberty of
> > using JSP 1.2 (wish I did...)
>
>Don't get me wrong: I'm definitely not complaining about those features
>being added. I think they're great! And because it's all contributed stuff,
>it's not like it's taking up valuable development time that would otherwise
>have been spent on improving the core. My only point is that Struts is doing
>itself a disservice with it's current release numbering.
>
>I'm fortunate in that my company has the good sense to use 1.1 despite the
>fact that it's still called a beta; it seems that other readers of this list
>are not so fortunate. But it would be a very hard sell to convince our
>clients to let us use a nightly build of _anything_ in their applications.
>Maybe it's just about time to flag a (stable) nightly build as beta 3?
>
> > >I definitely agree that this would be useful. I would prefer it to go
> > >slightly further though, into being a milestone plan along the same lines
>as
> > >the one Mozilla has (i.e. to set out the features and bug fixes that are
> > >targetted for the next N releases, rather than just the next one). I find
> > >that gives a very clear picture of where the project is at. It does need
>to
> > >be kept up to date, though...
> >
> > Do you have any time to offer towards creating such a plan?
> > Everybody pitches in around here...
>
>I will help in any way that I can, although my time _is_ limited.
>
> > I think Mozilla has a much larger community, and does it have more
> > people who get paid to work on it?
>
>Yes, it does, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. It needn't be a highly
>detailed plan: I would expect it to start off fairly general and add details
>as milestones get closer.
>
> > Not that it's not a good goal -- just that wishing won't make it so!
>
>Agreed!
>
>Cheers,
>Vil.
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