On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Simon Laws <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Simon Laws <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:27 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> We have made a lot of progress since our last Tuscany M4 release, and >>>> although we have talked about it in the past, we haven't actually got >>>> to it. >>>> >>>> I want to start working on the M5 release, and was planning to cut a >>>> release branch around this weekend, or early next week. >>>> >>>> Thoughts ? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Luciano Resende >>>> http://people.apache.org/~lresende >>>> http://twitter.com/lresende1975 >>>> http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>> >>> Its been way to long since the last release so yes lets get on with >>> this one. Taking a branch this weekend seems rushed to me though as >>> there's still a lot that needs doing, why not try some of the cleanup >>> in trunk first to see what the state is and what needs doing before >>> deciding when to take a release branch? >>> >>> ...ant >>> >> >> Having spent some time reminding myself where we're at with the distr >> structure (samples etc.) I'd like us to hold off taking the branch a >> little bit longer. As we're well long the milestone road now there are >> some things I think we need to finally make decisions on, launchers, >> samples structures etc. and a few more days spent getting the trunk >> set up based on this before we branch will, I think, focus our minds >> and remove an awful lot of wasted effort spent copying stuff backwards >> and forwards. >> >> Simon >> >> -- >> Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org >> Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com >> > > I've got to a point where I've made changes to the non-osgi calculator > based samples to separate the contributions from the mechanisms by > which the contributions are started. With various other distractions > it's taken a *long* time to get that done. So rather than addressing > the rest of the samples now, I propose that we use this as an example > approach we can include in M5 and then do more work on it after the > release. +1 > > There are still things I need to do today, such as fixing up the > README files and making sure the output jar names are consistent etc. > so I'll still be making sample related changes during the day. > > There are issues that have been raised during this process, for example, > > 1 - the nature of the runtime jars that the samples refer to > this is a wider discussion which I think should wait until after M5. > 2 - the use of extension specific directories to collect samples > together (see samples/binding-rmi for an example). > we could just create the directories and fix this > 3 - how command line launching will work assuming we want to support it. > I tried the .bat file we have and that didn't work with the build > as it is but I haven't looked at why. I'm tempted to exclude this > option for calculator samples for M5. > > Simon > > -- > Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org > Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com > I'm trying to work back though recent posts to find the best way help move this release along. Maybe I can help myself by making a wiki page containing a check list of what we plan to do (unless there is already one I have missed). Suggestions on where I could make an impact to move this along are welcome.
Kelvin.
