Xavier Hanin wrote:
Hi,
If nobody sends a -1 vote for the 2.0 alpha 2 release of Ivy on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list until tonight, we will be able to officially release it.
Thus I would like to gather feedback about the announcement I plan to send
tomorrow:
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July 20 2007 - The Ivy incubator project is please to announce its
2.0.0 alpha 2 release, a new step on the road toward 2.0 final.
Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.
This second release of Ivy in the Apache incubator is still an
alpha version, as such we do not guarantee any stability, API and features
are still likely to change until final 2.0.0 version. Still we encourage
the use of this version for early testing.
This version focus was to clean the code to get better readability
and improve maven 2 compatibility along with several other
bug fixes and improvement.
Download the 2.0.0 alpha 2 release files at:
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/download.html
More information can be found on the Ivy website -
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
Regards,
Xavier Hanin (2.0.0-alpha-2 release mgr)
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What do you think?
1. I'm actually automating my release notifications these days; one
advantage of a two week release cycle is it encourages you to do that. I
have a template txt file that gets all its ant properties expanded.
Things I expand include
-version number
-SVN commit number and full branch
-sha1 checksum of all artifacts
I still have to hand patch in the release notes from jira, but that's
about it.
Regarding the text, I'd be far more enthusiastic about adoption. You
want people to be excited about downloading it, not scared. Certainly
we've been running the old release over 1.4.1-compatible files with no
obvious problems.
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This second release of Ivy in the Apache incubator is still an alpha
version, and
as such we do not guarantee any stability, especially of the API, until
the final
2.0.0 version ships. In practise, the ant tasks and core functionality
do appear
to be working, to the extent that the new version can be switched in
over the 1.4.1 release.
Key features of the 2.0.0-alpha-2 release are
* enhanced support for reading, Maven2 POM files
* cleaner code for easier developer participation
* Minor bug fixes as documented in Jira.
We strongly encourage all users of Ivy to try this new version, so that
any remaining compatibility
issues can be reported and resolved before the product is released.
Issues should be reported
to issues.apache.org/jira
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Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/
