Author: hwright
Date: Mon Jul 11 15:59:25 2011
New Revision: 1145214
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1145214&view=rev
Log:
Add a template for the pre-release announcement mails.
* tools/dist/templates/rc-release-ann.ezt:
New.
* tools/dist/release.py
(write_announcement): Add an extra (still bogus) value to the data dict.
Added:
subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/rc-release-ann.ezt
- copied, changed from r1145160,
subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/stable-release-ann.ezt
Modified:
subversion/trunk/tools/dist/release.py
Modified: subversion/trunk/tools/dist/release.py
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/tools/dist/release.py?rev=1145214&r1=1145213&r2=1145214&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- subversion/trunk/tools/dist/release.py (original)
+++ subversion/trunk/tools/dist/release.py Mon Jul 11 15:59:25 2011
@@ -417,10 +417,11 @@ def write_announcement(args):
'Write the release announcement.'
version_base, version_extra = split_version(args.version)
- data = { 'version' : args.version,
- 'sha1info' : 'foo',
- 'siginfo' : 'bar',
- 'major-minor' : 'boo',
+ data = { 'version' : args.version,
+ 'sha1info' : 'foo',
+ 'siginfo' : 'bar',
+ 'major-minor' : 'boo',
+ 'major-minor-patch' : 'baz',
}
if version_extra:
Copied: subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/rc-release-ann.ezt (from
r1145160, subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/stable-release-ann.ezt)
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/rc-release-ann.ezt?p2=subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/rc-release-ann.ezt&p1=subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/stable-release-ann.ezt&r1=1145160&r2=1145214&rev=1145214&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/stable-release-ann.ezt (original)
+++ subversion/trunk/tools/dist/templates/rc-release-ann.ezt Mon Jul 11
15:59:25 2011
@@ -17,6 +17,34 @@ For this release, the following people h
[siginfo]
+This is a pre-release for what will eventually become Apache Subversion
+[major-minor-patch]. It may contain known issues, a complete list of
+[major-minor-patch]-blocking issues can be found here:
+
+
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?component=subversion&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=[major-minor-patch]
+
+A pre-release means the Subversion developers feel that this release
+is ready for widespread testing by the community. There are known issues
+(and unknown ones!), so please use it at your own risk, though we do
+encourage people to test this release thoroughly. Of particular note, please
+remember than persistent data, such as the working copy or repository
+formats may change before the final release, and there may not be an
+upgrade path from the pre-releases to the final.
+
+As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have this
+release candidate widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready for packaging
+and providing to end-users through a distro package system. Packaging a
+release candidate poses many problems, the biggest being that our policy lets
+us break compatibility between the release candidate and the final release, if
+we find something serious enough. Having many users depending on a release
+candidate through their distro would cause no end of pain and frustration that
+we do not want to have to deal with. However, if your distro has a branch that
+is clearly labeled as containing experimental and often broken software, and
+explicitly destined to consenting developers and integrators only, then we're
+okay with packaging the release candidate there. Just don't let it near the
+end users please.
+
+
Release notes for the [major-minor].x release series may be found at:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/[major-minor].html
