Yes — congratulations and well done!

drew


On Jul 16, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Jim Helwig <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>> ​
>> 
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