> -----Original Message----- > From: Benson Margulies [mailto:bimargul...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, 17 October 2010 4:55 AM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: A new release? Can I help? > > OK, I now understand about jing. > > My motivations here are these: a bunch of foundation project use > forrest; everyone has to update their branding; the Java 1.6 issue > gums people up. Given the workaround, a release is not so urgent as I > expected it to be. > > Still, I'm willing to poke at some of the issues below, but it would > be nice to know that there are a few residual PMC members here who > could actually RM the release (and vote for it).
Residual PMC members? In what way? Not having a release for 3 years doesn’t mean the PMC has gone away. Gav... > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:07 PM, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Benson Margulies wrote: > >> Hello forrest dev: > >> > >> Java 1.5 is somewhat scarce on MacOSX and recent ubuntu. Is there > any > >> way I could help push out a release of the trunk, ... > > > > Thanks so much Benson. I don't have much time > > but will try to help. > > > > Some quick response notes: > > > > * Yes please do help. > > > > * There has been some discussion about what needs > > to be finalised. Some people have made individual > > spurts of progress. As Forrest is moving slowly, please > > see further back in archives. Some things were partially > > dealt with and may need follow through. > > > > * Review issue tracker. > > http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html#filters > > The main filter is "FOR-roadmap-dev". > > > > * Review some outstanding patches. It would be > > a shame not to include some more contributions > > and we need to encourage our contributors. > > > > The review will encourage our committers to > > apply it. Speaking for myself i don't have enough > > time to investigate the following suggested ones. > > > > Glancing through the list i reckon that FOR-1203 > > and FOR-752 are the only likely candidates. > > The others are either in plugins, which can be > > handled at any time after the core release, > > or need more work. IMO we should focus elsewhere > > at this late stage. > > > > * I have made some progress at classifying the > > licenses of our various supporting products. > > We complicate things because we bundle these > > products with our release. > > > > Next task is to ensure that we meet all of > > their conditions, e.g. perhaps pass on NOTICES. > > > > * We have the release process at: > > http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html > > > > * Another useful resource is "Project tasks" > > http://forrest.apache.org/tasks.html > > > > * I suggest that you install the "Forrestbar" > > http://forrest.apache.org/tools/forrestbar.html > > It is a great benefit for directed quick search/access > > of our project resources. > > > > Thanks again for anything that you can manage > > to assist with. > > > > ----oOo---- > > > >> ... which (from the > >> email archive) seems to be 1.6-friendly? > > > > Please note that Forrest does not require Java 6. > > Let us know if the following issue does not address > > what you are seeing. > > > > I was very concerned when i searched the net to see > > that people do not realise the simple workaround. > > > > Today i added a new FAQ: > > http://forrest.apache.org/faq.html#oldjing > > > > -David > >
