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

[John Verhaeg]

On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:18 PM, John Doyle wrote:

> But I think every release has to have tooling that works on the day  
> we release or none of them will matter to users.  Can we agree to  
> that?

I agree that until Designer is no longer the only way to create input  
for Teiid, Teiid release notes should specify 1) which version of  
Designer works with it, and 2) the features available in Teiid that  
require tooling that isn't available.

> IMHO, I think we should break the releases apart only when we have  
> the modularity allows us to do it in a verifiable way.  Until we  
> have APIs and SPIs that aren't in flux, how will we know and  
> communicate to the community which version of our tools work with  
> which version of Teiid?

I disagree.  If the Designer needs to release based upon new usability  
and performance improvements, bug fixes, or features independent of  
its interaction with Teiid (either embedded or the server), it  
shouldn't need to wait on Teiid.  Likewise, the server should have the  
same leeway.  We certainly need to communicate on both of our project  
web sites which version we are compatible with.  Amongst other places,  
one would certainly expect to see this type of information in the  
software requirements section...