I'm OK with the change but would like to understand the proposal a little bit
better.
Not knowing Maven enough I do have a few questions.
What would be the equivalent to branches?
How would we manage the "cut" for stabilizing and releasing?
How would we manage *TCK*?
Cheers!
Hernan
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
David brought up a proposed change to the release process around some
specs that he is currently working through. As you all know the release
process has been a challenge for quite some time. Branching, building,
voting, building, voting, building voting, etc. Which is quite time
consuming. It may be that we've gone too far in the release process in
terms of how were structured. We need a better way that ensures we are
releasing good binaries in terms of code quality as well as meeting the
legal requirements. I think David's suggestion is a step in the right
direction.
We elect someone to be the release manager which in essence empowers
them to follow through the process of getting software out the door. In
David's proposal (currently for specs and this is a great starting
point) is to propose a release and use Maven to release:prepare /
release:perform to create the final binaries and place them into the
Maven repo.
In essence, the release manager (or whoever is working to release some
component) indicates their desire and points to the branch to be
released. This effectively defines the content of the release. Folks
on the project would then build from that branch and satisfy themselves
that they are satisfied with the content and vote. The release manager
would then release using the Maven plugin and be responsible for the
actual distribution.
Based on the way we can release with Maven 2 we are significantly closer
to release early / release often.
The content of the vote would be something like
Vote: Allow individual modules to be released based on source content
in SVN as indicated by the release manager and use Maven to produce and
release the appropriate artifacts.
I'd like to leave this open for discussion through next Friday and bring
this up for a vote first week in January. This discussion thread is the
place to get ideas on the table. I suspect that this will not garner
100% support so this vote will be a majority consensus. Remember, we
can always change things later if they aren't working out.
If you like the proposal as is just simply give a +1 so people can know
your opinion. Its not a vote in this thread but simply a quick
determination of opinion.
For those who haven't released before, this will really simplify the
process and make it less tedious and allow more people to be involved.
Matt Hogstrom
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