Will do Suresh. I think the main target of the 0.5 release as discussed last week is almost achieved. Will send a checklist mail for the 0.5 release.
Saminda On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Suresh Marru <sma...@iu.edu> wrote: > Hi All, > > Should we start planning for the next and upcoming 0.5-incubating release? > Before we commit all GSoC projects to trunk, harden, test and integrate it > will with the code base, should we cut a release first? I can see the major > improvement in terms of registry. Thanks to the community contributions > from Ye Fan and bug reporting from Sudhakar, it will be nice to extend the > provenance registry to include to the service/workflow registry entries as > well. But I will leave it unto the release manager to look through the > JIRA's and make a call. > > Saminda, since you volunteered but couldn't do the 0.4-incubating release, > will you be willing to co-ordinate and release the 0.5-incubating? > > Thanks, > Suresh > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Saminda, > > Great. So please goahead and start with the process, here are some handy > steps: > > 1) Digest the latest developments and send out a feature list for this > list. Once a consensus on release features is reached, post them on the > website [1] (I just realized its way outdated, we need to update it with > current and future releases). > 2) Go through the JIRA's and appropriately tag the release 'Fix Version' > for the upcoming release > 3) Set a target date for a feature freeze and engage dev list in closing > or deferring the issues. > 4) Call out for a testing period and when you are comfortable, freeze the > trunk for a short time and go through the release process. > > Note: Last two releases we branched and then released mainly because I > wanted to focus on the build and legal issues (L, N, D) and did not want to > stall development. You need not do it this time as we have the build and L, > N files in a much better shape. > > Suresh > [1] - http://incubator.apache.org/airavata/development/roadmap.html > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Saminda Wijeratne wrote: > > > WIll do Suresh. I will go through the existing jiras & prioritize... > > > > Saminda > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> With an anticipation for 0.3-incubating release, we need to start making > >> 0.4-incubating release plans. I see the following open JIRA's tagged for > >> 0.4 - http://s.apache.org/hQ. > >> > >> I build files and release process is much streamlined now, I also cloned > >> Rave release instructions and updated for Airavata - > >> > http://incubator.apache.org/airavata/development/release-management.html. > >> How about we rotate the release managers? I will be happy to hand hold > the > >> release process if others would like to step in. > >> > >> Saminda, > >> > >> As I look through, the commits we had since branching 0.3, major > >> development seems to be XBaya refactoring. Since you steered these > changes, > >> will you be able to be RM for this release? I can work with you on the > >> process and we can update the release documentation as we go along. > >> > >> Suresh > >> > >
