[teiid-designer-dev] Re: [teiid-dev] 6.1 Release

[Larry O'Leary]

I see.  Makes complete sense.  If I need a patch/fix for a release of
the project then I would be responsible for building it myself.

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:30 -0500, John Verhaeg wrote:
> What I'm really trying to address with the release version issue is  
> the official direction that RedHat/JBoss have stated they want to go.   
> No matter what we call it, be it an "update release" or "patch", the  
> direction is to not offer either of these in the project side of the  
> world.  If something is broken in one release, the earliest time to  
> see its fix will be the next minor release.  I believe the rationale  
> for this is partly to further the idea that if you really need patch- 
> level support, buy the product.
> 
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Larry O'Leary wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > As for patch releases, your are correct, they shouldn't really be done
> > but we shouldn't confuse a patch with a revision release.  A 6.0.1
> > release would give us an opportunity to role critical usability and
> > execution bug fixes into an already released 6.0.  We would think of
> > this as an update release and not a patch.