RE: release process for our plugins

2010-07-03 Thread Gav...
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:cross...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, 3 July 2010 7:18 PM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: release process for our plugins > > David Crossley wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > I h

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-07-03 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > I have been doing some more review, and will attempt to > > present a proposal soon. > > Still :-) > > > -- > > The following do not have an entry in the plugins > > descriptor file whiteboard-plugins.xml and have never > > been deploy

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-10 Thread David Crossley
I am going to take the opportunity before we do deployment of plugins, to tweak the presentation of plugin websites. Don't let that stop you guys from getting your favourite plugin ready. -David

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-10 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > I have been doing some more review, and will attempt to > present a proposal soon. Still :-) > -- > The following do not have an entry in the plugins > descriptor file whiteboard-plugins.xml and have never > been deployed to the website ... > Database, OpenOffi

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-09 Thread David Crossley
I have been doing some more review, and will attempt to present a proposal soon. We have 12 plugins, and 34 whiteboard plugins. -- The situation with Java code ... With the core plugins, only one has Java code: PhotoGallery. With the whiteboard plugins, only six have Java code: Data

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-07 Thread David Crossley
I want to update the "Anakia output" plugin. Have found a much simpler way of configuring a Forrest-using project to export all of their site content. So i will deploy the existing plugin once more. Then increment its "plugin version", then make the changes, then deploy again. It is important th

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > Gav... wrote: > > > > Ok, but still, I'm confused as to why 0.8 version plugins, i.e. > > most of them, are appearing in the 0.7 and 0.9 versions of > > the plugins page. That's what I see as broken. > > Ah, sorry i misread your question. > > Yes, i too think that there

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread David Crossley
Gav... wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Gav... wrote: > > > > > > Ok, but the plugins when rebuilt will be done so with Java 1.5 , how > > > will that affect things? > > > > Ah good point. We should have done a deploy of all > > plugins that had Java code (only some do) before > > doing that cha

RE: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread Gav...
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:cross...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, 7 June 2010 12:06 PM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: release process for our plugins > > Gav... wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > Gav... wrote

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread David Crossley
Gav... wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Gav... wrote: > > > > > > When code has been changed on a plugin since the last release, are we > > using > > > the > > > policy of 'lets upgrade the forrest version required as well as the > > plugin > > > version number' - that would make it easier all ro

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread David Crossley
Gav... wrote: > > Ok, but still, I'm confused as to why 0.8 version plugins, i.e. > most of them, are appearing in the 0.7 and 0.9 versions of > the plugins page. That's what I see as broken. Ah, sorry i misread your question. Yes, i too think that there is something wrong with that "Plugins I

RE: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread Gav...
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:cross...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, 7 June 2010 10:28 AM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: release process for our plugins > > Gav... wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > > > >

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > Gav... wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > > > > It should be easy to whip around each plugin and > > > do a proper release of each. > > > > > > That also means that each plugin has a specific marked > > > version, rather than just a continual work-in-progress. > > > >

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread David Crossley
Gav... wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > It should be easy to whip around each plugin and > > do a proper release of each. > > > > That also means that each plugin has a specific marked > > version, rather than just a continual work-in-progress. > > OK, when updating documentation for a plu

RE: release process for our plugins

2010-06-06 Thread Gav...
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:cross...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, 4 June 2010 12:50 PM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: release process for our plugins > > Gav... wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > > > >

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-03 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: > > > The draft > > release doc in the plugins directory suggests that its possible to > > release plugins independent of the core but couldn't we, for now, just > > as well continue to do what we do and release the plugins with the > > core? > > Ah, b

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-03 Thread David Crossley
Gav... wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > One very important reason for designing the plugin system > > the way that we did, was to ensure that each plugin has > > its own community supporting it. > > That doesn't seem to be the case to me at the moment, ... That is one reason that i raised

RE: release process for our plugins

2010-06-03 Thread Gav...
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:cross...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, 4 June 2010 11:00 AM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: release process for our plugins > > One very important reason for designing the plugin system > the way th

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-06-03 Thread David Crossley
One very important reason for designing the plugin system the way that we did, was to ensure that each plugin has its own community supporting it. -David

RE: release process for our plugins

2010-06-03 Thread Gav...
> -Original Message- > From: Tim Williams [mailto:william...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, 28 May 2010 12:20 AM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: release process for our plugins > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:16 AM, David Crossley > wrote: > > We do

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-05-27 Thread David Crossley
Tim Williams wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > The "release process" issue? relative to plugins I assume? Yep, as i said, i reckon that our core releae process is fine. Just the release process for each plugin needs attention. > The draft > release doc in the plugins directory suggests that

Re: release process for our plugins

2010-05-27 Thread Tim Williams
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:16 AM, David Crossley wrote: > We do have a process sorted out for releasing of Forrest core. > [1] How to release Forrest > http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html > > I reckon that it meets the ASF requirements. Please see > this email where i h