Well done, all!

On 7/16/14, 1:31 PM, Andrew Petro wrote:
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> uPortal developers,
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> It's finally done!
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> 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.
>
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> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/4.1.0
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> https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/releases/tag/uportal-4.1.0
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> http://www.apereo.org/uportal/download/uportal-4-1-0
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>
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> Master is now un-frozen and free for development towards uPortal 4.2:
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> https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/
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> and there's a new maintenance branch for patches for 4.1 towards 4.1.1:
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> https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/tree/rel-4-1-patches
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> 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:
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> 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
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>
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> Finally, a special thanks to Ahad Zaman for providing downright 
> intensive testing of master into the final days of the release.
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> 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.
>
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> 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:
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> https://gist.github.com/apetro/c35b8891075af97a0b2b
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> ​
>
> ​
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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:
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>
> 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:
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>
> 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
>
>
>
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> *[...snip...]*
>
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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
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> Jasig/uPortal/master
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> 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
>
> ​
>
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