I think a Slide 2.0 release would be the best thing since sliced bread.

I think there is a large interest in slide, and users are frustrated with the 
lack of functionality in the old release, but many cannot build the current 
CVS.

I would like to help, and would volunteer to work on the wrappers, and if 
permissible, the configuration/startup code in Domain.java and 
EmbeddedDomain.java (which I think could be cleaned up).

Let me know if there is anything else I can help with, or if the tasks above 
are unnessary or inappropriate.

Richie




Quoting "Nevermann, Dr., Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Great, Oliver! Your qualification for the task is *best*!
> 
> Here is my +1.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Oliver Zeigermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:55
> > To: Slide Users Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: Slide 2.0 Release Management
> > 
> > 
> > OK, this means the RM needs commit access to the CVS. Thus 
> > the RM must 
> > be an active committer.
> > 
> > Active committers are (sorry if I have forgotten anyone, 
> > please tell me 
> > if this is the case):
> > - J�rgen Pill
> > - Peter Nevermann
> > - Martin Wallmer
> > - Ingo Brunberg
> > 
> > Additionally, there is one designated committer, which is *me*.
> > 
> > I understand the people from SAG hardly will take the 
> > position of the RM 
> > as they have releases of their own server. Correct?
> > 
> > This leaves Ingo and to a limited degree me.
> > 
> > There can be no doubt being a RM is unpleasant and requires a
> > significant amount of time, as R�my said. That's way I dare 
> > not to ask 
> > Ingo, but rather propose myself for the job, even though 
> > other certainly 
> > have better qualification. If Ingo, the people from SAG or any other 
> > committer wants the job, I will be even happier :)
> > 
> > What do you people say? Especially committers since we - as 
> > R�my said - 
> > need three +1 from votes committers.
> > 
> > Oliver
> > 
> > Remy Maucherat wrote:
> > 
> > > Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> I am not really in the position to answer that question as I have 
> > >> never participated in a Slide release. Also the term 
> > "release manager" 
> > >> is not very well defined in general. Although, judging from what I 
> > >> have seen in other open source projects and from what I 
> > have learned 
> > >> from this mailig list's archive is this:
> > >>
> > >> 1.) The release manager (RM for my laziness) will need 
> > access to and 
> > >> solid knowledge of the CVS. When there is a feature freeze 
> > the RM will 
> > >> either have to lock the CVS and accept fixes as email only 
> > or create a 
> > >> release branch and later merge fixes back to the HEAD. I'd say a 
> > >> branch is good enough for a small project like this. Also 
> > the RM will 
> > >> have to do the tagging of milestones, releases, etc.
> > >> 2.) The RM keeps in contact with the users, contributors 
> > and commitors 
> > >> and communicates with Apache release people.
> > >> 3.) Actually *makes* the release. The RM decides when the 
> > release is 
> > >> mature, writes release notes, with known bugs, enhancements, 
> > >> limitations, etc.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > For the release to happen, a vote from the committers is 
> > also needed (at 
> > > least three +1).
> > > 
> > >> 4.) Runs the test suite to the code. Maybe this can be 
> > delegated to 
> > >> someone else? Anyway, the tester must have good knowlege 
> > of the system 
> > >> and an overview over the sources. The RM for shure needs 
> > to guarantee 
> > >> there is at least one clearly identifiable person per code part / 
> > >> package.
> > >> 5.) Sees to the general documentation being up to date
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Other than that, nice summary :)
> > > I was the RM for Slide 1.0.x, but unfortunately it required a 
> > > significant amount of time, and so I didn't want to do it 
> > for Slide 2.0.
> > > 
> > > R�my
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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