Martin,
Thanks for raising this issue. I'm copying glassfish dev, because I
think our decision
greatly depends on which version the Glassfish team going forward is
going to
encourage developers to use as the default platform.
Tom
Martin Matula wrote:
> GF b14 has been promoted - this is the build we will do the milestone
> testing with. However the default version linked from the download
> page (https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2-b14.html) is "EE",
> not "PE". We found out the same was true for the GF 2 Milestone 1
> build already.
> PE edition that we used to be testing with is also accessible, but
> from http://download.java.net/javaee5/promoted/.
> We need to decide by COB today whether we should test with the PE
> (more preferable for QA to minimize the risks of regressions caused by
> GF bugs), or EE (the default edition available to users). See the
> thread below for more discussion.
> Martin
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: [Fwd: glassfish v2 build b14 has been promoted]
> From:
> Martin Matula <Martin.Matula_at_Sun.COM>
> Date:
> Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:51:03 +0200
> To:
> Tom Amiro <Tom.Amiro_at_Sun.COM>
>
> To:
> Tom Amiro <Tom.Amiro_at_Sun.COM>
> CC:
> Deepak V R <Deepak.Vr_at_Sun.COM>, tango_qa_at_sun.com
>
>
> I don't think it is acceptable to point users to the page Deepak
> mentioned. We would need to create a page similar to
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2-b14.html pointing to the
> PE builds for all platforms and containing installation instructions.
> Is that really what we want to do? The last promotion ran on GF 2 EE
> (Milestone 1) already and we noticed no regression.
> Martin
>
> Tom Amiro wrote:
>
>> Deepak and Martin,
>>
>> On the page Deepak lists, both EE and PE versions are available. So I
>> still say we should
>> go with the PE version. Switching to the EE version to which
>> clustering was recently added
>> is asking for trouble.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Deepak V R wrote:
>>
>>> Martin,
>>>
>>> Actually, glassfish promotion mailer is not giving enough
>>> information. If you go to [1] your find jars they mention in the
>>> promotion email. They should point to this link in the promotion
>>> email. And we must also mention it in our milestone page.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Deepak
>>> [1] http://download.java.net/javaee5/promoted/
>>>
>>> Martin Matula wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tom,
>>>> users do not have access to javaweb.sfbay - they have access only
>>>> to glassfish.dev.java.net. If I go there, the only download I see
>>>> seems to be the ee download (without "pe" in the name). So, I don't
>>>> think we should be using "pe".
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> Tom Amiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Want to make sure everyone see this.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we should be using the PE version
>>>>> PE without Clustering:
>>>>> glassfish-image-pe-v2-b14.jar
>>>>> glassfish-pe-installer-v2-b14.jar
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
>