I have created a release candidate and started a vote thread on this mailing list. I would appreciate if we could avoid svn commits that are not related to the release or fixing high priority bugs until after the vote concludes.
It's been a while since I did a POI release and it is a very manual process so I would appreciate if reviewers have a good look at the source distribution and jars. On 2023/09/21 15:23:54 PJ Fanning wrote: > I'll have a quick look around to see if any tidy up is needed but I suspect > we are ok to do an RC in next day or 2. It suits me to cut an RC soon because > I'm pretty busy with Apache Pekko releases and don't generally have much time > to look at POI these days. > > I'll try to update the release docs as I go. I tend to use the XMLBeans > release docs as a guide because I think those ones are easier to follow. I > might just clone the XMLBeans ones and make adjustments to make the new docs > apply for POI. > > > On 2023/09/21 09:55:33 Tim Allison wrote: > > Sounds great. I’ll try to make a run against our corpus as well. > > > > Thank you! > > > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:58 AM Dominik Stadler <dominik.stad...@gmx.at> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Yes, I agree, a release soon would be good to get the many many > > > improvements out to users. > > > > > > P.J., could you run the process once more and maybe update documentation > > > along the way so others can do it as well in the future? Not sure how > > > up-to-date > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/site/src/documentation/release-guide.txt > > > is to the actual current steps? > > > > > > I can trigger a regression-run of the large corpus over the weekend to see > > > which regressions may have creeped in. > > > > > > Thanks... Dominik. > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 9:32 PM PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Should we be looking at doing a POI 5.2.4 release soon? It's about a > > > > year > > > > since the 5.2.3 release and we have quite a backlog of changes in trunk. > > > > There also some lib changes where CVEs have been issued with those > > > > downstream libs (eg commons-compress). > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
