Kevan Miller wrote:
On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:
Given that there were no objections to my offer to be release manager
for 2.1.2 - I'll go ahead and assume the role :-).
There have been a number of JIRAs identified as required and others as
optional. In addition to this there were already several already
tagged with a "fix version" of 2.1.2. I added all of these latter
ones to the optional category. At the moment I think things are
current in the wiki:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxPMGT/geronimo-212-release-plan.html
Several of the JIRAs that have been identified do not yet have an
owner. We may need to discuss how critical these truly are for a
2.1.2 release.
4175 seems like the only absolute *must-fix* in the list. Well, guess
I'd want to better understand 4124 and 4099...
Would be good to see the others fixed, but not a hard requirement, IMO.
In addition to the JIRAs there have been several other items mentioned
for 2.1.2:
- Javamail? Currently there is an optional item to release and
include a new version of javamail. Given the recent fixes I think it
perhaps should be required. Are you working on a release Rick and if
so, what is the ETA? I can pitch in to get a release out if you don't
have the cycles.
I agree.
- CDDL xsds? David mentioned the possibility of using the cddl xsds
rather than our xsds to generate xmlbeans classes. I'm not familiar
with how much work is necessary here or if it is feasible in the short
time-frame that we are considering for a 2.1.2 release. Any more
feedback?
Personally, I'd target this for 2.2. I definitely would like to see
this, I'd just target it for our next full release.
- Accessibility? There has been some discussion and work on
accessibility improvements for the console. At this point in time, I
think it makes sense to integrate some items before we lock things
down. However, I don't think we should make this a requirement for
the release and we'll need to stop the updates early enough so that we
can validate there is no breakage before we create a release candidate
(see proposed dates below). Comments?
Agreed.
Is there anything else that we're missing?
Samples -- I'm tempted to say that I need to see a released/deployable
samples for a 2.1.2 release.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do with Samples regarding 2.1.2.
We definitely need to get samples released. I also think it's still
important to get versions of samples available that can be deployed on
Geronimo 2.1 and 2.1.1. If we release samples for either or both of
these releases then we can also release a compatibility plugin so that
they can run in 2.1.2. We might want to even consider including the
appropriate artifact-alias entries in the 2.1.2 server images directly
with the 2.1.2 release (instead of a plugin) so that not only samples
but other plugins created for 2.1 or 2.1.1 could run on 2.1.2 (such as
Directory).
I'd like to get a release candidate available within a few weeks if
possible. Perhaps 7/21 is a good target locking down the content
(code freeze). If we release javamail we might need a little more
time than that. Does that sound reasonable to all? That would give
us a shot at getting a release candidate available by 7/24 or so and
if all goes perfectly a certified release and out the door by 7/31.
Sounds ok to me.
--kevan
