On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:50 AM, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> wrote: > One of the things that we usually do in the lead-up > to a release, especially one that is so long between, > is to upgrade some important supporting products. > > Now that Gump is running Forrest again, it is showing > that we can upgrade these with some confidence. > > [1] http://forrest.apache.org/gump.html > > Some candidates are Ant, Xerces, Xalan, xml-apis, Excalibur, > ant-contrib, various Apache Commons stuff. > > See the list of supporting products being used by our Gump at > [2] > http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/forrest/forrest-test-basic/details.html > The ones with "Annotation = Work Entity" are specific versions > of some products. Of course Gump is using a packaged version > of Cocoon-2.1.11 release, because Gump is not yet building the > head of Cocoon-2.1 branch. See our Gump descriptor at [1] for > more info. > > The rest in the list at [2] are the head of each product's > development. > > So compare with what we have in our lib directories in SVN > to see what might be upgraded. > > We are still using a very old version of Ehcache (v1.2.3) > and Gump is not yet attempting to use the recent development version. > So local testing would be needed to determine if that can > be upgraded. > > If someone feels like doing those tasks, then please do.
I can help here but I thought we *didn't* do updates really close to a release[1]? [of course, I'm assuming we're close to a release:) ] Thanks, --tim [1] - http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#prep
