Chris Mattmann wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>  Discussing this with Andrzej, and reading his email below, I tend to agree
> more with this procedure below. I would like to call for a vote to change
> the existing as-documented procedure (on the wiki) to branch first, do
> testing in  branch (apply patches where needed), and then when the branch is
> blessed (e.g., 3 binding votes from committers in favor of it), tag it, and
> make a release. Sound good?
> 
+1

The current wiki doesn't really specify the order.  I think we should 
follow the current conventions of Hadoop...which is the branch then tag 
but with some other steps as well for merging trunk to branches.


>  In terms of next steps with what we have now, that boils down to:
> 
> 1. delete tags/release-0.9
> 2. apply patch to trunk
> 3. create branches/branch-0.9
> 4. have dennis test again (large scale)
> 5. if all goes well, finish release process
> 6. tag tags/release-0.9

I agree with this process.

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
>   Chris
> 
> 
> On 3/28/07 10:35 AM, "Andrzej Bialecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Dennis Kubes wrote:
>>> Yes.  This seems to have fixed the problem.  All, do we want to create a
>>> JIRA and commit this for the 0.9 release?
>> It should definitely go into the release, and we need a patch for the
>> trunk/ .
>>
>> Actually, I'm somewhat surprised that we have tags/release-0.9 but we
>> don't yet have branches/branch-0.9 ...
>>
>> I think I'm confused, or the release procedure is confused. My
>> understanding so far was that we first create a branch-0.9, we test the
>> build from that branch and if it passes all tests and the wait period is
>> over, then we copy it to tags/release-0.9 and proclaim a release - which
>> is really a read-only branch, i.e. we don't ever commit any patches to
>> it ... If that were the case, then we still wouldn't have the
>> release-0.9 tag, we could have applied the patch in branch-0.9, plus
>> possibly other patches, and then finally tag this tree as tags/release-0.9.
>>
>> As it is now we are in an awkward situation that we have to patch
>> tags/release-0.9 ..
>>
>> One solution would be now to delete this tag, apply the patch to trunk,
>> create branches/branch-0.9, and continue applying any other patches that
>> may come up during this testing period - and when we are finally happy
>> with the codebase then take a snapshot into tags/release-0.9, and keep
>> it read-only.
>>
>> Another solution is to bend the rules and apply the patch to trunk/ and
>> then merge from the trunk to tags/release-0.9 .
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
> 
> 

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