On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 at 14:54, Alex Porcelli <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I’d like to propose stepping in as an additional release manager for the
> 10.2 release so we can help move things forward.
>
> It looks like progress has slowed a bit, and rather than let the release
> sit any longer, I’m happy to help push things along this weekend on the
> backend repositories where I can contribute directly. Then, at the
> beginning of next week, we can continue the effort together and coordinate
> on the remaining pieces.
>
> My goal here is simply to help accelerate the release and get us to an RC
> as smoothly as possible.
>
> If there are no objections, I’m ready to jump in and assist with the
> release work.
>
+1

Mark

>
> -
> Alex
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM, Alex Porcelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Kennedy,
> >
> > Looks like you didn't close the Drools nexus repository as documented in
> > the release document.
> >
> > Let me know if you need additional help to speed up this release, I'm
> more
> > than happy to work on this release with you.
> >
> > -
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM, Kennedy Bowers <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Alex,
> >>
> >> Thanks, I appreciate it.
> >>
> >> I've managed to fix the issues and successfully branched all
> repositories
> >> to 10.2. They have all now been updated to version 10.2.999-SNAPSHOT.
> >>
> >> I continued the release process by running the Drools release job and it
> >> completed successfully. However, when running the OptaPlanner job, I’m
> >> getting an error that appears to be related to invalid credentials, as
> it
> >> cannot access the staging repository.
> >>
> >> Do you have any ideas on how this could be resolved?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >> Kennedy
> >>
> >> On 2026/03/06 16:48:59 Alex Porcelli wrote:
> >>
> >> Kennedy,
> >>
> >> I can help and work on this, the sooner we have the release the better.
> >>
> >> -
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 2:46 PM, Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Alex,
> >>
> >> The Drools CI ran successfully and updated the 999-SNAPSHOT versions as
> >> expected. However, the OptaPlanner and Kogito builds were unstable and
> >> didn't correctly update the 999-SNAPSHOT version, so I'm currently
> >> investigating those issues before proceeding with the kie-tools build. I
> >> plan on branching the kie-tools repo next week once that's resolved.
> >>
> >> I'll update the Zulip thread as I make progress.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Kennedy
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM Alex Porcelli <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Kennedy,
> >>
> >> I wanted to follow up and see if you could share an update on the
> release
> >> status. I took a look at the repositories, and while some now have
> 10.2.x
> >> branches, I noticed the versions are still set to 999-SNAPSHOT, which
> >> suggests the automation may not have completed successfully.
> >>
> >> I also noticed that kie-tools doesn't appear to have been branched yet,
> >> which could put us at risk of getting out of sync with the rest of the
> >> release.
> >>
> >> Could you provide some clarity on the current state and next steps?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 3:44 AM, Dominik Hanak <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good news!
> >>
> >> Thank you Kennedy!
> >>
> >> Following our past practice I have created a zulip topic[1] to
> facilitate
> >> collaboration on the release.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> >>
> https://kie.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/386449-kie-dev/topic/10.2E2.2E0.
> >>
> >>
> >> 20Release.20Thread/with/575482378
> >>
> >> Dominik
> >>
> >> On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 15:35, Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> Thank you for your patience as we finalize preparations for the 10.2
> >> release. I appreciate everyone pitching in with PRs and reviews to keep
> >>
> >> the
> >>
> >> momentum going.
> >>
> >> I’m pleased to share that the final PR related to the new BPMN Editor,
> >> first announced here [1], has now been merged [2]. A big thank you to
> >>
> >> Tiago
> >>
> >> Bento for the significant work behind this modernization effort, which
> >> allows us to move away from our GWT dependency and brings us further
> into
> >> compliance with Apache guidelines.
> >>
> >> Additionally, all Quarkus and Spring Boot upgrades have been
> successfully
> >> merged. Many thanks to Jijo Thomas K and Nithin R Krishnan for your work
> >>
> >> on
> >>
> >> these updates [3].
> >>
> >> Our original plan for the 10.2 release was to remove the GWT-based
> >> BPMN/DMN/SceSim Editors from the codebase, with the Quarkus and Spring
> >>
> >> Boot
> >>
> >> upgrades scheduled for the following release. Because the GWT work took
> >> longer than anticipated, it’s great that we are now able to include
> these
> >> upgrades in 10.2 as well.
> >>
> >> I will begin running the CI pipelines tomorrow morning (CET) which will
> >> create the new 10.2.x branches. If you have any PRs that you believe
> >>
> >> should
> >>
> >> be included in this release and would justify a short delay, please
> >>
> >> respond
> >>
> >> here. That said, given the time since 10.1, I believe it’s important
> that
> >> we move forward and publish this release soon to re-establish a
> >>
> >> consistent
> >>
> >> and reliable release cadence.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Kennedy
> >>
> >> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/87863y10qxm564cc76svvonslponv2f9
> >> [2] https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-tools/pull/3448
> >> [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/314vb9wxt22r0t4rh6xqlcf78yz66wv5
> >>
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