On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:22 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Ramkumar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> Hey Dave >>> >>> With the results from [1], I guess we are ready to cut the 1.x >>> branch where any work necessary for a 1.4 release can be done. As for >>> the 1.4 release plans, we probably need to revise the plans and >>> schedule, but any help on getting the release out from others on the >>> community is certainly welcome. >>> >>> [1] http://markmail.org/message/na5r3ghoji6nqlzw >> >> >> Hi Luciano, >> >> I would be very much interested in getting involved with the release >> activities in getting the release done for 1.4. >> >> Please let me know, where to start and how to proceed further? Thanks. >> >> -- >> Thanks & Regards, >> Ramkumar Ramalingam >> > > Here's some things that need to happen: > > Firstly make the release branch from trunk/1.x > - create the 1.4 branch by doing an svn copy from 1.x to 1.4 > - rename the version in the trunk/1.x to be 1.5-SNAPSHOT > > Complete build of 1.4 including distribution > > Start reviewing and testing the 1.4 distribution > - legal: > --compare the jars in the lib folder to whats in the 1.3.2 release lib > folder and note differences > --compare the LICENSE and NOTICE with whats in 1.3.2 distribution and > note the differences > - try out all the samples, demos and tutorials checking they still work as > described in the READMEs raising JIRAs for any problems > > ...ant > > As we haven't done a release for a while out of 1.x (we've been doing 1.3 releases) can I suggest we do all the tidying work in 1.x before cutting the release branch. A matter of building the distro ourselves and making sure the samples run, fixing up the licenses etc. Should save a bit of time in terms of copying changes back and forth. Once we have the distro pretty tidy we can fall back into the process Ant describes for a final scrub and RC production. Simon
