Laszlo, you did an amazing job -- and it's really awesome that you want to continue doing it for the next release!
Gj On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:39 AM Antonio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Laszlo, > > I think we all were honored you being our release manager. This release > has been specially difficult, with unexpected roadblocks and required > extra effort. Also thank you for volunteering as a 11.0 release manager. > > Regarding voting candidates / release candidates, some other projects do > have release candidates ([1]). I see the "voting" and "release" just a > naming convention, something that is useful for us to communicate. I > think the important stuff is having NetCAT helping us decide if > something is ready or not. Naming is just a cosmetic thing. > > +1 to adding BLOCKER to JIRA issues. In fact we could end up having a > small dictionary for those. For instance, "BLOCKER" could mean to us > "any reason (legal, technical or other) that may stop a release being > published". > > Finally I'd add another enhancement: storing all NetBeans releases as a > simple XML/YAML file somewhere in the website (with links, etc.), and > have the website-tools generate page for us automatically with proper > links. Apache is very strict on what a release page can have (proper > urls, mirrors/archive, links to keys and checksums, not including github > links, etc.) we may want to automate that in the future. > > Thanks again for making 10.0 a great release, and Happy New Year everybody, > Antonio > > > [1] > https://spark.apache.org/release-process.html > > > El 29/12/2018 a las 1:11, Laszlo Kishalmi escribió: > > Dear all, > > > > I was honored being your release manager of Apache NetBeans (incubating) > > 10.0. > > > > Thank you all, who contributed to this release and thank you for the > > guidance, correcting me whenever was needed! > > > > When I applied as a volunteer, I thought it would be easier especially > > after Geertjan and Emilian did a really great job releasing and > > documented the process for 9.0. Special thanks for that! It has turned > > out it is not enough to simply replicating the previous process, but we > > needed to improve that. > > > > I needed to learn a lot about the Apache way, and along the road I made > > a few mistakes, sometimes miscommunication, which could have been > > annoying or look unprofessional. I'm sorry for that. I'm sure I was not > > the best release manager for Apache NetBeans so far, I just hope I was > > good enough. As of the future, if the community trusts me I apply as a > > volunteer release manager for the upcoming Apache NetBeans 11.0 release. > > > > I see two major things need some improvement: > > > > I'm still not happy with the vote candidate naming convention. Even if > > we had no public non GA release during the 10.0 cycle, We really had an > > internal Beta 1 (10.0-vc1), Beta 2 (10.0-vc2) which we do not really had > > the intent for offer voting on PPMC. We had an Release Candidate 1 > > (10.0-vc3), which almost ended up being released and at the end we had > > an RC3 (10.0 -vc5) which has been finally released as Apache NetBeans > > (incubating) 10.0. I can live with that, though it is a bit strange to > > assemble a vote candidate, knowing that the best vote you can give on > > that is a -1. So first we need to decide if we would like to have public > > betas and release candidates in the future or not. > > > > After last minute changes: We had a short lived vc4, as of vc3 has been > > voted down on IPMC level having binary files in the source package. > > Suddenly a handful of serious issue has appeared. I do not know how can > > we help on this. There is only one thing I would add here. Please do not > > hesitate mark every legal related concerns as BLOCKER in JIRA, even if > > it is not a BLOCKER at all, we can't really let legal issues flying > > under our radar. > > > > I was overall happy with the responsiveness of the community on the > issues. > > > > I think Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 is a great release! > > > > Once again, Thank you for all! > > > > Laszlo Kishalmi > > > > Release Manager of Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 > > > > P.S.: Constructive feedback on the my work and the process are more than > > Welcome! > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
