On Mar 31, 2005 David Crossley wrote:
David Crossley wrote:
What worries me is that we don't hear many other people stepping up to help with the release. So maybe we need to delay it for another week or two.
Sorry to everyone who was expecting a release, but the freeze date has passed and we are not ready. We need people, both committers and developers, to assist with documentation and outstanding issues.
Well we are in a lot better shape over the last few weeks. Some major issues were fixed.
The website is almost sorted out. Just need to remove the /dev/ directory and remove the old top-level docs. They are all being handled with the .htaccess redirects. We need to reinstate our local forrestbots so that we committers can publish docs easily. That should be just tweaking of a config following the merge of the docs-author directory with site-author.
The plugin infrastructure seems to be pretty good. I haven't yet tried publishing the various plugin docs yet. Ross has done it a few times. The plugins directory in forrest/site SVN needs cleanup, and there are some old files on the server. The renaming seems to be all done.
I *think* this works now, but I have not been able to do enough testing as I get strange errors about inconsistent line endings and have not had time to get the the bottom of the problem yet.
There are still some Jira issues open. We don't need to fix everything.
I will be away on holidays for the next week. I will try to do email.
During that time I will go through the remaining issues and see what we should consider a *must* for this release.
If anyone wants to propose a new release schedule, like we did earlier in this thread, then go for it. Otherwise i will do that when i get back.
Anyone volunteering to coordinate the release for us? It involves setting dates, notifying the list of code freezes, building the distributions, getting us devs to test etc.
There is a document in SVN that describes what must be done, and of course we will all help out.
I'll keep focussed on the remaining bugs (should have some time next week).
Ross
