Hello Kev, +1
Antoine Kev Jackson wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > -- > "Man is truly free only among equally free men" - Michael Bakunin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
