Andrew McIntyre wrote: > > Funny you should ask, I'm in the middle of writing up a doc on the > release process from end to end. This will be a good opportunity to > test and review the instructions as you go along and we can make sure > that nothing was missed. > > So yes, I'll certainly help out with it as the process goes along.
Thanks Andrew. My thought is that you would be official release manager and I help mostly by tracking the bugs but performing other subtasks as well. Is that ok? But yes, I can help test and review the instructions. . > The first thing to do would be to target the bugs you want fixed in > the release in JIRA. I've created a 10.1.2 release in JIRA and moved > all the 10.1.1.1 bugs to be targeted for 10.1.2. > Thanks for making the Jira updates. Since this release is kind of date driven, would it not be up to the individual fixers to mark the target fixin for 10.2, then in the end game we resolve that with reality? How would we work the dates backward if we wanted a release on the website say October 26? When should fixers plan to have their bugs fixed? When would we call a vote? Could fixes still go into 10.1 during the testing/voting period? > Speaking of versioning, this should probably be a separate mail, > perhaps with a vote, but I like the idea that you proposed before: > that a committer can bump the final version number if they are > committing small fixes to the branch, and that larger bug-fix-rollup > releases like 10.1.2 should be the level at which we are tracking > versions in JIRA, in STATUS, and elsewhere. If there's consensus for > that, I can work on writing ant targets for bumping the version > number and automatically dealing with the associated test diffs, etc. I think using the fourth digit would be good. Since we have it, we may as well use it instead of the build number to identify fine grained fix versions. It seems a little confusing though to have a bug fixed in say 10.1.1.12 and have the Jira Fixed In version be 10.1.2, but perhaps that's more workable than having so many versions in Jira and trying to mark them correctly. Kathey
