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List:       jakarta-general
Subject:    Re: Now what? (was: Jakarta Overview)
From:       "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver () apache ! org>
Date:       2002-03-24 2:50:18
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On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 21:25, Jakarta General Newsgroup wrote:
> Subject: Re: Now what? (was: Jakarta Overview)
> From: Jon Carnes <nospam@nospam.com>
>  ===
> Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> 
> >
> >> > > 'News' as a measure of activity on a project is effectively useless.
> >> > > Commits/month would be a lot better.
> > True.
> > 
> > </snip>
> > 
> >> I agree, but you need a purpose for a release. Releasing just so it
> >> happens often is pointless. There should be a consistent amount of
> >> change/bug fixing/docs etc for a release to be made.
> >> 
> > 
> > Agreed.  But thats not a release.  Thats called lying to yourself/others
> > that you have a release when you really just have a build.
> > 
> > -Andy
> 
> I believe that you have to have a release periodically (even if the changes 
> are not dramatic). These things are cyclical.  If you want to keep the 
> focus of your community, you have to generate releases.  Agreed that they 
> should not be pointless, but I can't imagine a truely pointless release.  
> We always have *some* progress. 
> 

I tend to differentiate between "builds" and "releases"

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