On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > > 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 > Actually thats a good point, and as 1.x will be pretty stable as we're focusing on 2.0 it should be fine doing the tidy up directly in the 1.x branch for now. ...ant
