Hi David!
David Blevins wrote:
Looks like there is more or less a consensus to release 1.4 final
branch. Going to get started on that then.
Sounds good, though there have actually been some good fixes added to
the trunk since the 1.4 branch.... Considering we haven't done the
release yet, I'm doubting anyone is really using the 1.4 branch as a
checkpoint as yet (?) - do you think it might be worth merging the HEAD
over to 1.4 before releasing? I'd be +1 for this, but even if not I'd
like to see the HEAD go out as 1.4.1 pretty quickly....
Glen, as I understand it, you've done all the Axis releases to date.
You have a checklist or something of the steps required? Or at minimum,
a couple tips?
Here's what I think needs doing, which has usually been some combination
of myself and dims (he's usually done at least the last two steps).
* Make sure version is updated (xmls/properties.xml,
release-notes.html, changelog.html)
* Make sure change log is updated (changelog.html)
* Make sure release notes are accurate (release-notes.html)
* Make sure you have ALL optional dependencies installed
so that the build works out-of-the-box with all extensions
* Clean everything, ensure all-tests works
* Build dists
* Calc checksums, sign release
(we haven't been doing this but need to. You can find info at
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html)
* Upload to /www/www.apache.org/dist/ws/axis/ (create new dir in there)
* Update the Axis web site
* Update the Maven repository
Jakarta has a terrific release guide at
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/release.html, we should have
a version of that for WS....
So let's discuss my question above, and then once we decide, let me/us
know if you have any problems/issues, and thanks so much for helping out!
--Glen
