On this topic... I've been looking at the release stuff and decided to just go for it...

For this initial RC1 for version 4.0.0 I decided to go with the tag route and we'll do a branch later when we're ready to do a final release. The "tag" in this case is just an svn "soft" tag, ie the implicit tag from the revision number (see the REVISION) file in the archive. A real tag in SVN is pretty much the same as a branch and I think is a little heavier than what we need for this.

Before moving on to the next step we need to review this among ourselves. Here is a list of things that I can think of that we need review in this:

1. test un-archive and run as-is (should only require JDK installed)
2. identify and show-stopper bugs that we should fix before a real RC
3. check all ASF required files (NOTICE, LICENSE, KEYS, etc) and headers
4. check PGP and MD5 files
5. anything else?

Anyone who feels comfortable looking at these things, please do and comment as needed!

The files are posted for initial review as attachments on the docs.ofbiz.org site to this page:

http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/wAE

Thanks in to everyone for your help getting to this point, and of course your help reviewing this so we can move to the next step!

-David


On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:39 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

I've prepared a draft of the Incubator September report here:

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2006

The next OFBiz report will be due in December... do you think it is possible to try to graduate before that date? Who can help to wrap up the release candidate of OFBiz (that is the very last task we have to complete, even if it is not a mandatory task)?

Jacopo



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