Well done, all! On 7/16/14, 1:31 PM, Andrew Petro wrote: > > uPortal developers, > > > It's finally done! > > > uPortal 4.1.0 is now available. > > > It is tagged in source control, there's a release page up on > apereo.org , and there's binaries available for download from a GitHub > release page. The release is in process slurping into Maven Central. > > > https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.1.0 > > > https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/releases/tag/uportal-4.1.0 > > > http://www.apereo.org/uportal/download/uportal-4-1-0 > > > > Master is now un-frozen and free for development towards uPortal 4.2: > > > https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/ > > > and there's a new maintenance branch for patches for 4.1 towards 4.1.1: > > > https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/tree/rel-4-1-patches > > > 4.1.0 is first and foremost a tremendous step forward. uPortal now > has a release defaulting to the Respondr responsive design theme, and > pursuing responsive design together is really important to continuing > to meet adopter expectations for compelling web portal experiences > across devices. > > > Also, thanks are especially due to James Wennmacher for untangling the > Maven dependency resolution issues into the final days of the release. > Those fixes made it into 4.1.0 and should make this release a lot > more feasible to adopt and support in green field environments. > > > More generally, these developers contributed commits to this release: > > > Ludovic Auxepaules > Nicholas Blair > Vincent Bonamy > Jennifer Bourey > Raymond Bourges > Bill Brown > Shawn Connolly > Christian Cousquer > Eric Dalquist > Michael Gillian > Arvids Grabovskis > Aaron Grant > Julien Gribonvald > Peter Hart > Josh Helmer > Tim Levett > Jacob Lichner > Dan McCallum > Misagh Moayyed > Jodie Muramoto > Ross Nicoll > Chris Paraiso > Andrew Petro > Matt Polizzotti > Jeff Sittler > Paul Spaude > Steve Swinsburg > Gary Thompson > Tim Vertein > Chris Waymire > James Wennmacher > Chris White > Drew Wills > > > > Finally, a special thanks to Ahad Zaman for providing downright > intensive testing of master into the final days of the release. > > > So, well done! > > > uPortal 4.1.0 is also shipping with some known bugs and issues. > There's a macro in the release page that conveniently lists those in > priority order. It would be a lovely thing to burn down that list > through some early patch releases. > > > https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.1.0 > > > I'd like to tentatively set the expectation that there will be a 4.1.1 > patch release around August 15th, that is, a month out. It certainly > doesn't have to be me cutting that release at that time, but I think > that's the right timeline to be thinking about. > > > Kind regards, > > > Andrew > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Andrew Petro > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:20 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* release notes for 4.1.0 release > > Still tying off loose ends for the actual tag-and-release. > > > Release notes, which will be placed in the "Release" page in GitHub > and linked from the wiki, are drafted here: > > > https://gist.github.com/apetro/c35b8891075af97a0b2b > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Andrew Petro > *Sent:* Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:09 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: FREEZE master for 4.1.0 release > > Status update on this: > > > Short version: Updated ETA for uPortal 4.1.0 is Monday July 14th. > > > You can most immediately help by grabbing this changeset, testing it, > and reassuring all that it ought to be merged already > thanks-very-much. : https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/pull/378 : :) > > > Long version: > > > The good news is JIRA is now groomed to provide clearer reporting when > you ask it questions about the uPortal 4.1.0 release (and the staged > 4.1.0 release notes page now embeds a couple of those queries) and > human-readable narrative release notes are coming together. uPortal > 4.1.0 is a *huge* release in terms of the accumulated goodness since > 4.0.0 (much of which has been doled out bit by bit in 4.0.x releases > as well). There's a lot to be excited about in the 4.1 release and > the tooling is coming together to communicate that substance. > > > The other mostly good news is that I've been in a lot of training and > conference this week about presenting skills, conveying presence, and > modern UX design and development. I suggest that's great news in that > all of those skills are good for the uPortal project. :) > > > However, it does get in the way of heads down release engineering, and > there's a limit to how much bandwidth abuse I'm willing to inflict on > my fellow conference attendees, so remaining release tasks will click > together bit by bit over the next few days. > > > Again, the `master` freeze for 4.1.0 release engineering in no way > blocks grabbing the `master` code to work with it and crafting > branches and even pull requests for the fixes and improvements that > will come into uPortal post 4.1.0. :) > > > Kind regards, > > > Andrew > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *[...snip...]* > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Andrew Petro > *Sent:* Thursday, July 03, 2014 12:26 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* FREEZE master for 4.1.0 release > > uPortal developers, > > > I request that > > > Jasig/uPortal/master > > > be considered frozen to changes pending the release of uPortal 4.1.0 > GA (or a RC, depending on the outcome of the now pending uPortal 4.1.0 > release vote). > > > Of course, part of the beauty of distributed source control is that > `master` freeze for release in no way impairs collaboration upon and > sharing of code. By all means, fix your favorite bug this weekend. > Fixing bugs is patriotic. > > > To the extent that there are changes that need to make it into the > 4.1.0 GA release (or that RC), please be sure I'm aware. > > > Kind regards, > > > Andrew > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
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