On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Simon Laws <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, kelvin goodson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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. >> > > Hi Kelvin > > Luciano made a list [1] already. At the moment it's a matter of > running trying all of the things you would expect to see in the > src/bin distro to see what works and what doesn't, e.g. running build > and samples across various environment, e.g different OS, different > web containers, different Java. Take a look at the list and see if it > makes sense. We also have to check the legal stuff of course. > > Simon > > > -- > Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org > Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com >
It would help if I actually included the link! [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYWIKI/Release+-+Java+SCA+2.0+M5 Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
