Pat: I can provide support and information for you. But I do think we need to first sort out the dependencies question I pointed out earlier.
Cheers, Greg Trasuk > On Aug 9, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > > I am going to include the lack of a release manager for 3.0 in the board > report, and assign myself an action item to fix it. > > At this point I think my best bet is to appeal on the > d...@community.apache.org mailing list for a mentor who is familiar with the > release process to guide me through the steps. However, I am very open to > alternative suggestions. > > On 8/8/2015 8:22 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> Peter? Anyone? >> >> I have time, but not the knowledge. I would be willing to be release >> manager provided at least one person who knows how it is done will >> provide a lot of step-by-step guidance. >> >> On 8/8/2015 7:21 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote: >>> Not really I am afraid. I am quite heavily committed on several projects >>> right now. I have done applications development with river, but I am not >>> familiar with the historical river project structure in any depth and >>> have >>> never done development on river itself. And I have never participated >>> in an >>> Apache project release. I am just not a good candidate for this. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Bryan >>> >>> On Saturday, August 8, 2015, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Bryan, >>>> >>>> Are you able and willing to act as release manager for 3.0? >>>> >>>> On 8/6/2015 11:56 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just release to encourage people to use it. +1 on release.for me. >>>>> On Aug 6, 2015 2:55 PM, "Patricia Shanahan" <p...@acm.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Would it be useful to tag it as a 3.0 beta release initially, or >>>>> just go >>>>>> to 3.0 and add point releases as needed? >>>>>> >>>>>> I will vote in favor of releasing it either way. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 8/6/2015 9:55 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Or just release it. If problems emerge, people can report them and >>>>>> they >>>>>>> can get fixed. There is a known reliable release now. Let the >>>>>>> community >>>>>>> vote by migrating their code. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Bryan >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As far as I can tell, the main remaining release blocker it >>>>>>> getting more >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> people to test in more environments. Perhaps we should put out an >>>>>>>> appeal >>>>>>>> on >>>>>>>> u...@river.apache.org? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 8/6/2015 9:33 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe it would be good to say a few words about the release goals >>>>>>>> for >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 3.0? >>>>>>>>> I.e., 3.0 provides a deep refactoring that address performance, >>>>>>>>> concurrency >>>>>>>>> and scaling issues. Significant progress has been made towards the >>>>>>>>> 3.0 >>>>>>>>> release target. X new tests have been developed for this release. >>>>>>>>> The >>>>>>>>> remaining blockers for a release are .... >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>> >>>