Thanks Boris! I will be glad to pursue the release issues, patches, documentation, and features. Expect to see more activity from me on these in JIRA.
Steven J. Hathaway > Hi Steven, > > [email protected] <[email protected]> writes: > >> I would like to see a patch release for Xerces-C (XML Parser). >> >> The current version of Xerces is 3.1.1. >> I propose a patch relase of Xerces-C as 3.1.2. > > A bugfix release (e.g., 3.1.2) would normally be released to fix > something, not to add new features. So I think we should aim for > 3.2.0 (from trunk). > > >> Tasks: >> * Update the "version.incl" file >> * Merge the trunk to the 3.1 branch >> * Perform quality assurance testing on the 3.1 branch >> * Update the Xerces-C website documents >> * Package the distributions >> * Submit the distribution artifacts to the mirrors >> * Announce a patch release > > I wish it were that easy ;-). A (possibly incomplete) list of release > tasks can be found here: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/c/admin/release-procedure.txt?view=log > > The major ones are: > > - Test on all the platforms/C++ compilers that we claim to support > - Build binaries for all the platforms/C++ compilers that we claim to > support > - Update (brain-dead) Xerces-C++ website management system > > I also remember last time I did a release, Apache infra people told > me that it was the last time we were able to publish our binaries > (I think it were the binaries) that way and we would have to change > to the "new way" with the next release. Not sure what that would > involve. > > Overall, Xerces-C++ release is quite a tedious and often frustrating > process, not something you would want to do often (which is also the > reason why you would try to get it right the first time). > > >> I can offer some assistance at getting the Xerces-C patch release >> ready for distribution. > > I was hoping to find time and make a release around June or July. > It would also be a good idea to spend some time and try to fix some > new bugs that have been uncovered since the 3.1.0 release. Not sure > if you would like to wait or if you want to press ahead. But your > help would be greatly appreciated. > > Boris > > -- > Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis > http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog > Compiler-based ORM system for C++ > http://codesynthesis.com/products/odb > Open-source XML data binding for C++ > http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd > XML data binding for embedded systems > http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
