On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:23 -0400, Steve Huston wrote: > > Marnie McCormack wrote: > > > Are there any C++-ers available to act as Release Manager > > for our 0.6 > > > offering please ? > > I don't have available time to manage it, but I will probably be > involved more than usual because the Cmake transition will have an > affect on the release process. Certainly for Windows, if not Linux. > The Linux folks will need to give some feedback on whether or not > they're reqady to give up autotools for the release. > > > > Thought it'd be good to have a non-Java person doing our next one, > > > especially since some of the complex content is on the C++ side. > > > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > > Marnie > > > > > > > > > > That would be good, also I don't think we have heard from > > enough people on confirming > > the freeze date for 0.6 -- Could we get some more input on > > freeze date of Mid Sept for 0.6 > > That's probably ok, feature wise, and should include the refactored > message store plugin, at least for Windows. I'm sure there will be > release fixing going on after that.
At this point there are 2 big holes in the Unix cmake build: 1. Testing is not nearly as comprehensive as autotools build. - Doesn't use valgrind if present. - Missing tests (eg. cluster tests) 2. Install target is missing most of the things that are present in the autotools version. 2. is a blocker to switching, in that we can't produce a release without a correct install target. But it is a fairly straightforward task, just requiring someone (me?) to find time to sort out the install target. 1. Isn't exactly a blocker to producing a release, but will negatively impact our ongoing dev process. To be honest our testing isn't exactly sufficient in the autotools build, so to decrease even that level of testing isn't a good plan. For these reasons I don't think we should be switching off the autotools build just yet. However I think we should make an aim in this time frame to be able to produce the c++ release from the cmake build. To be concrete:I think we should aim to solve 1. before 0.6 releases,but only remove the autotools build after we've solved 2. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
