Hi all, Reluctantly, I vote -1.
I tested the release. It compiled fine, ant test ran fine under JDK 1.5 and 1.6, worked with Velocity Tools 1.2. But when I checked all the hyperlinks, the anakia page was missing. There's an error when generating the page and it was left out of the distribution [1]. I'm concerned about two things. I'm concerned about a prominent bad link on the main menu, and I'm concerned the last minute "vote on the final release" might not have uncovered additional problems. We've a chance to make a major impression on the Java world with this prominent release and I want this to be very smooth installation for both new users and the typical existing user who wants to upgrade. My recommendation is to delay the release until there's time to fix these doc issues and for more thorough testing. Mid-March seems fine. For the "shallow bugs" theory to work, we need to issue a "release candidate" that everyone can work with. This doesn't need to be an actual release, just a binary distribution we can test. After a few weeks we should be assured the details are 100% set. Incidentally, I disagree with Henning's comment that the beta2 had no errors. Actually, beta2 had a serious error in the build process in which "ant test" failed when run from the actual distribution. It worked from the source distribution but not the released package. No one found this problem for a month. I can't adequately express my admiration of Henning's efforts in the last 6 months to get this out. This must be frustrating. I take responsibility myself for not thinking through the implications of the release process when Henning proposed a month ago we issue a release at the end of January. However, the good news is that the recent momentum was effective. We are right at the doorway to a new release with many new features. The code is branched and close to perfect. Docs are set, readme is present. With a little more checking (and fixing minor issues like this one), we can type "ant dist" in early March and create the new release. WILL [1] [echo] [anakia] Transforming into: C:\Documents and Settings\wglass\Desktop\velocity-1.5\bin\docs [anakia] Input: anakia.xml [anakia] [anakia] Error: The end-tag for element type "example" must end with a '>' delimiter. [anakia] Line: 117 Column: 60 On 1/28/07, Henning Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Due to a misunderstanding in the vote procedure, we actually have to repeat the release vote, because we should vote only on really rolled releases. The candidate for the Apache Velocity 1.5 release is available from http://people.apache.org/dist/velocity/1.5/ Shall we release this code base as Apache Velocity 1.5 [ ] +1 Yes. [ ] 0 I still don't care. [ ] -1 No, because ________________________________. Vote period is Monday, Jan 29th 0:00 MET to Wednesday, Jan 31st 0:00 MET Best regards Henning --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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