I would like to emphasis the help approach as the goal is to communicate that “they” are “us” :(
Still if the pictures and feature description is important to you it will be some more hours before I can release. Jody On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:21 AM Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jody, > I'm strongly against this approach, people may test it if they see > something new they are interested into, > we cannot give them priorities, they are not there to help us, never have > been so far at least, > best we can hope is that they have their own self interest is matching > ours. > > Please, let's go back to the usual approach, full announcement with > pictures. The focus on just trying > an upgrade is also a good one, can we put it in a prominent place? Like > both top and bottom of the message? > > Cheers > Andrea > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:38 AM Jody Garnett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have created a draft announcement, using a different approach than >> normal. Since this is a release candidate I have strictly focused on a call >> for testing, promising a details on new features when the 2.17.0 release is >> made. >> >> Here is a snippet: >> >> *This is a GeoServer release candidate made in conjunction with GeoTools >> 23-RC and GeoWebCache 1.17-RC.* >> >> >> - *Release candidates are a community building exercise and are not >> intended for production use.* >> - *We ask the community (everyone: individuals, service providers, >> organizations) to download and thoroughly test this release and report >> back.* >> - *Participating in testing release candidates is a key >> expectation of our open source social contract >> <http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/>. We make an effort to >> thank >> each person who tests in our release announcement and project >> presentations!* >> >> *We will provide a more extensive description of new functionality when >> GeoServer 2.17 is released.* >> >> I would like review (please) and ideas for testing priorities: >> 1. Test with your own data >> 2. Test download bundles work (I know my own tests are in a prior email) >> 3. Test MBStyle since it has had so much work done >> 4, Security tab for workspaces, layers and layergroups >> >> Any other priorities for testing? Checking recent proposals >> <https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Proposals> has a lot of >> content. >> >> -- >> Jody Garnett >> >> >> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 17:25, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Testing, with a bit more caution than usual >>> >>> *geoserver-2.17-RC-bin.zip* >>> - VERSION.txt - looks correct >>> - RUNNING.txt - correctly updated with openjdk and adoptopenjdk >>> - README.txt - generic but correct >>> - NOTICE.md - has the summary of all the license stuff >>> - GPL.md - GPL license (I do not see any of the other licenses) >>> - modules/ - JETTY specific configuration, I suspect RUNNING.txt could >>> mention this >>> - resources/log4j.properties - not sure if this is needed >>> bin/start.sh - worked fine >>> - application runs fine, no issues with desk testing >>> - server status / modules - not a lot of information here >>> - sever status / system status - working fine, amused to see fan speeds >>> - tools - page loads at all >>> bin/shutdown.sh - worked fine >>> >>> *geoserver-2.17-RC-htmldoc.zip* >>> - unpacks into geoserver-2.17-RC-htmldoc folder now (hopefully fine) >>> - readme - describes api, user, developer (perhaps this should be html >>> file) >>> - api - is missing >>> - user - content is fine, has "GeoServer 2.17-RC User Manual" in header >>> and page title >>> - developer - content is fine >>> - CC Attribution license missing >>> - confirmed in logs: build_release.sh zipped the logs, did not find the >>> assembly >>> >>> *geoserver-2.17-RC-javadoc* >>> - NOTICE.md, GPL.md included >>> - contents are fine >>> >>> *geoserver-2.17-RC-war* >>> NOTICE.md, GPL.md, VERSION.txt included >>> - not all licenses as expected >>> geoserver/WEB-INF/lib >>> - no SNAPSHOT jars included >>> - "listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava.jar" <-- >>> not sure I know this story >>> >>> *extensions* >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-app-schema-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-authkey-plugin.zip - *no license* or readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-cas-plugin.zip - *no license* >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-charts-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-control-flow-plugin.zip *- not packaged as a folder >>> just a single jar* >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-css-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-csw-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-db2-plugin.zip - readme out of date (mentions >>> "gt2-db2") >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-dxf-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-excel-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-feature-pregeneralized-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-gdal-plugin.zip - could stand to have the image >>> license details here >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-geofence-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-geofence-server-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-grib-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-h2-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-imagemap-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-imagemosaic-jdbc-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-importer-bdb-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-importer-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-inspire-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-jp2k-plugin.zip - could use imageio license >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-libjpeg-turbo-plugin.zip - could use imageio license, >>> no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-mbstyle-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-mongodb-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-monitor-plugin.zip - readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-mysql-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-netcdf-out-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-netcdf-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-ogr-wfs-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-ogr-wps-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-oracle-plugin.zip - *GPL and NOTICE not needed* >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-printing-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-pyramid-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-querylayer-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-sldservice-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-sqlserver-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-teradata-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-vectortiles-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-wcs2_0-eo-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-web-resource-plugin.zip >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-wps-cluster-hazelcast-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-wps-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-xslt-plugin.zip - no readme >>> geoserver-2.17-RC-ysld-plugin.zip - no readme >>> >>> -- >>> Jody Garnett >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 00:25, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Please test out >>>> >>>> https://build.geoserver.org/view/release/job/geoserver-release/271/artifact/distribution/2.17-RC >>>> >>>> And report back, I have made extensive changes to the extensions >>>> (including license files) and docs (producing with maven assembly rather >>>> than zip). >>>> >>>> As such this is both a good use on an RC and an invitation to test with >>>> a bit more caution then usual. >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> Jody Garnett >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Geoserver-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > > >> > > -- > > Regards, Andrea Aime == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! > Visit http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. 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