On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ramkumar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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 >> > > Thanks Ant and Simon for the inputs, to start with I will do this as > discussed.... > > Complete build of 1.x including distribution > > Start reviewing and testing the 1.x distribution > > - try out all the samples, demos and tutorials checking they still work as > described in the READMEs raising JIRAs for any problems > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Ramkumar Ramalingam > Sounds good. I was going to go ahead and create a 1.4 tag for JIRA but someone beat me to it so we're set to go. Simon
