After some off-list negotiations, Antoine and myself are agreeing to
be co-release managers of Ant 1.7.
I will personally build 1.7.0beta1 or pre-release and post the
distribution on people.apache.org/~kevj for testing/evaluation by
Friday next week (29th July).
This pre-release/beta will be based on svn trunk as it stands next
week -
Antoine commits himself to building/releasing the next beta, and we
will make a rota afterwards (maybe not systematically alternating),
but we'll work something out.
The following issues need to be resolved until then :
- ManifestTest (I noticed that recent changes caused this to
fail, but I haven't had time recently to look into it or report it -
sorry my bad)
- svn antlib gump breaks (not sure if this is config issue as it
used to work fine)
- Stuff still on the wiki [1]
Do you agree with this plan
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
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Parallel to this, we should discuss other issues :
Whether or not we want to create an Ant 1.7 branch in SVN and when -
Antoine has mentioned that although this is stated in the release
instructions document, that some people were unhappy with branching
immediately - so this needs to be figured out.
We also need to discuss which (if any) of the antlibs will be
released at the same time as Ant 1.7. I think that we should at
least release the svn antlib (if we can get a clean gump build!) as
it's one of the most requested features.
Also I notice that the WHATSNEW is apparently incorrect, there is
mention of a <libraries> task in it, but Steve suggested we point
people to ivy and/or maven2, so this confusion over the libraries
task (in or out) needs to be cleaned up/removed from the WHATSNEW
document.
Thanks
(I'm quaking in my boots with responsibility now that I've committed
to do this :) )
Kev
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning
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