Sure, I propose the following dates: Feature Freeze Wed 15th December Code Freeze Wed 22nd December Publish Wed 29th December
Please help to run the tests. Tim, I found Kevin has attached a patch for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6419, would you please help to review it? Let's make new milstones for the coming New Year! :) On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/Nov/2010 13:55, Ray Chen wrote: > > Hmmm... Ok, I think it will take some time to understand these for some > time. > > Maybe we should put this milestone off for serveral days before I > > understand all the process. > > Hi Ray, > > Thanks for volunteering to do some RM. I can also help with the process. > > How about we set a new proposed date for the next milestone, and work > towards that? Encouraging people to report test results and getting the > list of JIRA must fixes sorted would be the first step. > > Regards, > Tim > > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mark Hindess > > <mark.hind...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> In message < > aanlktimb6ffnvpgmstycklxmnm5znmmeksxjopxs6...@mail.gmail.com>, > >> Ray Chen writes: > >>> > >>> Hi Mark, > >>> Does release manager must be a PMC? > >> > >> No. See: > >> > >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#release_manager > >> > >>> If not, maybe I can take the responsibility. > >> > >> That would be great. > >> > >>> However, I don't know much about how to do it, I think we need some > >>> transferring work. > >> > >> Ask here if you have questions. My activity as release manager for > >> previous releases was something like ... > >> > >> Suggest dates, announce freezes, encourage people to do testing and > >> move things along a bit when people send test results, work to resolve > >> release critical issues, produce signed source artifacts, start a vote, > >> conclude the vote and produce signed binaries. > >> > >> The scripts I use to create linux source and binary artifacts are in svn > >> at: > >> > >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/harmony/standard/tools/release > >> > >> I do the equivalent manual process for both windows platforms. > >> > >> The last crucial part is populating the /dist/ tree for mirroring. > >> You need to be careful doing this so as to avoid messing up lots of > >> mirrors. I tend to make the tree elsewhere then check that it matches > >> the size/shape of the previous release tree before using rsync to put > >> it in to /dist/. > >> > >> Just ask if you have question about any of the process. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Mark. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- Regards, Ray Chen
