We need people to review the release candidate and to test it on your projects, especially on different operating systems and Java version. See testing hints below.
Download the release candidate and supporting files: http://people.apache.org/~crossley/temp/forrest-09-rc1/ For Windows get *.zip (md5sum c04600e8befeaf005d5e4b9d6c8034f9) For UNIX get *.tar.gz (md5sum ea58a078e3861d4dfc8bf3296a53a5f8) Get the *.asc and *.md5 that match your chosen download. Java 1.5 or later is required. Testing and vote period concludes Monday 2011-02-07 at 22:00 UTC [2]. Anyone can test and vote, not just PMC members. However only the PMC votes are binding [3]. When voting, quote the md5sum to ensure that we are all using the correct final release candidate package. The votes need to happen against the final source release package. If we need to build another release candidate, due to necessary changes to the code or documentation [1], then we need to vote reagarding that package. PMC members need to satisfy themselves that the actual final release package meets the ASF principles. During this week we do need to hear about both successes and failures. Please report your operating system and Java versions and Jetty/Tomcat versions. So we have approximately 6 days. Here are some hints for actual testing: * Verify the release, especially if you are a committer. Follow: http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi#verify * Ensure that the compressed archive will unpack properly. * Follow the README.txt and index.html * Set $FORREST_HOME and $PATH appropriately. * Try it with different Java versions. * Try it with different versions of Apache Tomcat or Jetty. * Many known issues are already recorded at our Jira. * Don't worry too much about minor bugs. We are looking for blockers, such as it will not run. * Please add other discovered issues to Jira. * Make a fresh site ... cd my-new-dir forrest seed-sample forrest run ... use the local jetty server. forrest ... build the whole site from the command-line. forrest war ... use your own full Jetty or Tomcat. * Try it on the Forrest core docs ... cd site-author forrest run forrest * Forrest was already pre-built. Try building it again. cd main build clean build build test-sample * Try it on your own project, especially if you have a project sitemap and use some extra plugins. * If you are a user of forrestbot then try that. * Try building and installing the forrestbar. ------------------------------ [1] create final release candidate if necessary Saturday 2011-02-05 at 22:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=5&month=2&year=2011&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 [2] end of vote on final release candidate and commence the upload phase Monday 2011-02-07 at 22:00 UTC (i.e. planned release date) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7&month=2&year=2011&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 [3] Guidelines for Voting "A lazy majority vote requires 3 binding +1 votes and more binding +1 votes than -1 votes". http://forrest.apache.org/guidelines.html#actions http://forrest.apache.org/guidelines.html#voting
