Releases - Data Fixes

["eberhard speer jr." <se...@ducis.net>]

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Hi,

I think we can announce the release of the Java and the C# version,
but I do not know whether VB.Net is an 'accepted' language as it is
not open (http://projects.apache.org/languages.html).
I can make it available via my test-site, GitHub or why not OuterCurve
(http://www.outercurve.org/) if that works licensing wise...

With regard to the data fixes, I propose, at least for now :

OK, "Lets just go ahead and commit the fix to the data" using the
'cumulative' version of the data-files
(http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/devicemap/trunk/openddr/data/src/main/resources/devicedata/cumulative/)

We could also agree a standard message 'format' : for example :
Subject: Data fix
and in the message-body :

deviceId|oldPattern|newPattern

so a 'maintainer' (OK, me for now) can do updates in 'batches' to the
data in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/devicemap/trunk/openddr/data/src/main/resources/devicedata/cumulative/

Then when a new cumulative version is created from new OpenDDR
resources, the data 'fixes' will be maintained using those files.

esjr

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Re: Releases - Data Fixes

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:52 AM, eberhard speer jr. <se...@ducis.net> wrote:
> ...I think we can announce the release of the Java and the C# version,
> but I do not know whether VB.Net is an 'accepted' language as it is
> not open (http://projects.apache.org/languages.html)....

I think VB.Net is fine, this is similar to code that's created at
Apache to run on Windows - the code itself is open, the runtime is
not.

Note that we don't just announce releases, we have to create them as
per http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing and
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html - those docs
are a bit verbose, in short we need to designate someone (or several
people, one per language for example) as release manager, prepare the
release, vote on it and have the Incubator PMC ratify the vote, as
we're still an incubating project.

-Bertrand