[Javawebparts-general] Bylaws in effect (and I'd like to break them already!)

[Frank W. Z. <fz...@om...>]

For all developers/administrators...

With the addition of Herman to our "staff", the project bylaws are now
officially in effect.

However, I'd like to break them already :)

Specifically with regard to the release pattern... as specified in the
bylaws, each release is supposed to go through an alpha-beta-release
cycle.  We haven't been doing that to this point, which has been fine. 
Now though, I'd like to get opinions on how to proceed...

The current release is 1.0beta1.  My intention before today was to
continue to bump the beta number for a while, i.e., 1.0beta2, 1.0beta3,
etc., until we decide it is release-quality.  This doesn't really fit the
specified release pattern, although I suppose it isn't specifically
prohibited either.

My question is, is this plan OK with everyone? (Tamas and Herman that
is!).  Also, I think it would be easier to continue releases as has been
done so far, that is, no vote, and releases are, usually, every weekend
(except when there have been no real changes).

I wrote the bylaws with more developers in mind, so some things don't make
a whole lot of sense with only three of us.  For isntance, technically, we
should start voting now for every release, but we also should also hold
that vote open for two weeks.  That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to
me with only three of us.  So, do either of you object to leaving things
as-is in terms of releases, until we release a 1.0 GA?  At that point I
think we definitely *should* do things as specified, but while still in
beta I'm not sure it matters as much.

Opinions?

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Frank W. Zammetti
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Omnytex Technologies
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