Hi all, At the moment I am very busy working on something really important for a client, but I plan in the next few weeks to try and automate the release process a bit more. Thanks for the pointers Vincent. I can't make any promises though, it all depends on how much time I find.... :)
All the best, Adrian. 2009/9/23 Vincent Hennebert <[email protected]> > Hi Peter, > > Peter Coppens wrote: > > So what can the "community" do to make this happen? > > Not much I’m afraid. This is a task that requires write access to the > repository. It’s just time-consuming (and tedious). > > Actually, the most time-consuming part is updating the website and all > the links. See the checklist here: > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/release.html > > If most of the points listed there could be automatized, that would be > /extremely/ helpful. Maybe something can be done with Ant’s variable > substitution mechanism ([1], among others). If anyone wants to give it > a go... > > [1] http://www.javalobby.org/articles/ant-preprocessor/ > > Thanks for asking, > Vincent > > > > Thanks > > > > Peter > > > > > >> From: <[email protected]> > >> Reply-To: <[email protected]> > >> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:41:18 +0200 > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: Fop.next release? > >> > >> Quoting Peter Coppens <[email protected]>: > >> > >>> Fop fans, > >>> > >>> It seems the latest 'official¹ fop release ( > >>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html) is a over a > year > >>> old > >>> > >>> I was wondering whether there are any plans to release a newer version. > >>> > >>> We plan to release a new version of our product and need support for > some > >>> features currently only in trunk. > >>> > >>> I guess we could try to backport or rely on a trunk build but that does > not > >>> seem ideal. > >>> > >>> Anyone any thoughts on this? > >> We should make a release. We will make a release if someone has enough > >> time to act as the release manager. I would very much like this to be > >> the case, but it is difficult. > >> > >> Regards, Simon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Adrian.
