In order to make a release you have to touch several files, such as bumping the versions from 2.0-SNAPSHOT to 2.0-M1 in the poms. IIUC that is all we need the branch for and can otherwise continue working on trunk without porting changes back to the branch.
Best wishes, Paul On 12/11/06, Prasad Kashyap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another Q. If a branch is made, would the code there have to maintained ? Would bug fixes in 1.2 be rolled into the trunk as well as the M1 branch ? I hope not. I hope it is just for tagging purpose and the code there would not have to be maintained post M1 release. Cheers Prasad On 12/11/06, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why? I don't see why we would want to make a branch just for 2.0-m1. > > SVN is not the best tool for working with many branches, so I would > recommend keeping the active branches to an absolute minimum. > > What happened to stabilizing 1.2 and getting that out? > > I think that if you want to make 2.0-m1, then just pick a time on > trunk when it looks good, then make the release and move on to the > next milestone. IMO adding more branches here will just complicate > the matter way more than it needs to be for a pre-alpha release. > > --jason > > > On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > > All, > > > > Being the overly optimistic one that I am I'd like to branch trunk > > tomorrow in the afternoon. The goal of the branch is to stabilize > > a milestone release with the content previously discussed. > > > > So far it looks like we have: > > > > JSF, > > Java Mail > > Tomcat 6 > > Jetty 6 > > JSTL > > Java 1.5 ready > > and JPA > > > > I think Kevan is working on the specs which need to be completed > > for Geronimo 2.0 as well as 1.2. OpenEJB will need to release as > > well so I'm hoping to have an answer on the DayTrader issues > > tonight or tomorrow. > > > > I'm currently working through some issues with DayTrader on 1.2 > > which also apply to Geronimo 2.0. My thiking is that people will > > continue to work on trunk (2.0) while the M1 release is cleaned and > > made ready. I'll do the packaging and people can happily continue > > to hack away at trunk. > > > > Any major items missing? > > > > Matt Hogstrom > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
