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Re: My experience with GlassFish v3 promoted build installers

From: Sathyan Catari <Sathyan.Catari_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:37:03 -0700

Thanks for the feedback Sahoo,
Will file bug(s) appropriately to track.

-Sathyan


Anil Gaur wrote:
> Hi Sahoo,
>
> Your feedback is appreciated.
>
> "Preview should be removed and we should use version string
> consistently throughout the product.
>
> Please do not get tired of filing bugs as yet, I expect lot more
> issues to be reported after the SCF.
>
> I can log the issues for you if you prefer, that's the only way to
> ensure that such important issues don't fall through the cracks.
>
> I'm aware of the java.net instability issues and doing my bet to avoid
> outages and to improve the response time.
>
> Copying Sathyan so that he can address the installer issues.
>
> Thanks again,
> Anil
>
> Sahoo wrote:
>> Terena Chinn-Fujii wrote:
>>> Sahoo wrote:
>>>> I always use the zip file that's created during my build in my
>>>> local workspace. Today, I wanted to verify some bug fix, so I
>>>> downloaded v3-b62 installer. While the installation process was
>>>> smooth, these are my observations:
>>>>
>>>> 1. It says "Glassfish V3 Preview." How can it be "v3 Preview?" I
>>>> think I raised the same issue w.r.t. names of files uploaded.
>>>> Something wrong with our RE process. Terena?
>>>
>>> This is currently correct as we have not removed "Preview" from the
>>> bundle
>>> names yet so that's why you have seen it in the places you mentioned.
>>>
>>> I am hoping Abhijit will respond to this on when it can be removed...
>> I don't understand. Did Abhijit or anyone ask you to retain "Preview"
>> in the bundle names or you have retained them because no one has
>> asked you to remove them yet. If nobody asks to remove them, how long
>> will you continue promoting them as "Preview" bundles? What is the
>> normal RE process?
>>
>> We made a conscious decision to keep our maven versions in sync with
>> product version, but that's being violated. What is even more
>> surprising is that "asadmin version" prints "GlassFish v3 (build
>> 62)." So, now you tell me if someone wanted the version to be
>> Preview, it is not being done in all the places. It definitely does
>> not make sense to me to promote builds off trunk and call them
>> Preview well after preview is released.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sahoo
>>
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