On 06/Dec/2010 15:31, Ray Chen wrote: > Sure, I propose the following dates: > > Feature Freeze Wed 15th December > Code Freeze Wed 22nd December > Publish Wed 29th December
Unless somebody shouts, I don't think we need to adopt a length feature freeze. I don't see any major work in flight at the moment. So how about code freeze sooner (say Dec 10th) and publish the net milestone a week later (Dec 17th)? > 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? Sure. If others want to review it too that is fine ;-) Regards, Tim > 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > >
