+1...good plan.
Aaron Mulder wrote: > Alan, Matt, and I spoke about the release on IRC. Matt's thoughts are: > > 1. integrate the shell script changes to reduce verbosity. Matt thinks > this is important because its a customer's first impression and an > ECHO OFF is fairly trivial (famous last words) > 2. Integrate the fixes from JGenender for clustering since this is > such a big thing for users and this was advertised to folks. The > change looks reasoinalbe...doesn't seem to risk TCK testing and if it > doesn't work we're no worse off than we are now > 3. (Aaron paraphrasing) Include the simple security patch to reject > logins if web.xml has security settings but the Geronimo plan is not > provided or does not have security settings. The proposal to change > our Jetty system to use a "default" realm with no users in it has a > higher risk of breaking something (plus, it's not ready). > 4. Tag and cut a set of binaries tonight and start a TCK run > > Alan thought we should TCK and release the build that Matt made last > night. I thought that we should integrate the changes above and TCK > and release that. > > At the end of the conversation Matt asked me to summarize the > conversation and said of the 4-step plan above: "you can give it my +1 > and barring core dumps in Java this is it. I'll build tonight and > ask David Blevins to start the TCK on it". > > After that John Sisson pointed out that we have not fixed the issue of > spaces in the names of certain files in the documentation. > > I'm not totally clear whether Matt wanted more input or whether he's > made his final decision as release manager, but I would assume that if > anyone feels strongly that the plan above is a mistake then they > should speak up right away. :) > > Thanks, > Aaron
