On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:45 PM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: >> How are the plans for the next trunk 2.x release going ? I see we are >> making progress, but it does not seem are closing down on it ? With >> ApacheCon approaching quickly, I was wondering if we could do a >> release by end of month, and if people are not comfortable doing a >> release without all the tide ups going into samples, compliance tests, >> etc, maybe we could just call it M6 instead of BETA ? >> >> Thoughts ? >> > > To be honest I don't think we're likely to get the beta release done > by this month. Realistically we'd have to expect probably at least > three RCs if its "Beta1" to get it to a state where everyone is happy > which would take at least a one week and that only leaves about a week > to get everything done, looking at the state of things right now i'd > guess thats not quite enough. Calling it M6 might help, another thing > could be to separate the samples etc just do a src and runtime jars > release for now. > > As a side comment large amounts of time over the last weeks haven't > actually been directly on release work but just on fixing up the build > that had been left to get ragged. I got a clean build through locally > yesterday for the first time in ages but i don't think we've had a > clean Hudson one yet still. Without a working clean build its been > hard to do the release work as you can't tell if you're breaking > something. > > ...ant >
I don't mind if it's called M6 instead of beta I think releasing parts of the code base will just add confusion when I feel we're making good progress toward a more consistent approach Experience tells me we need to roll an RC ASAP, log the issues and get to fixing them otherwise we will enter a twilight zone where no one really knows what's happening. It has actually seemed like we are there already but, as Ants says, in reality we've just been working hard to stabalize the build. So who would like to be RM this time round? If there are no other takes I'll volunteer. Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
