On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Rob Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Given the number of changes I think it might be better to simply request a > general exception from the normal Beta release process. > > Unfortunately us Java guys are running a little behind schedule, and at the > point the Beta was cut, the Java code was not really releasable - a lot of > stuff not finished in the UI improvements, etc.). > > Since the beta was cut we've closed down pretty much all of the issues I > think, and certainly by close of business today I believe that the trunk > code will be in a releasable state. > > Given the above I'd like to request that rather than trying to merge each > of the individual JIRAs we instead merge everything that is on trunk on > Monday morning, and take that as the baseline for the first release > candidate. If nothing else it will better reflect the code that the Java > developers are currently testing against and fixing. > > What do others think? I think this is the right way to handle this situation. The standard process doesn't work for these changes. I'm inclined to make the next snapshot a "beta2" instead of an RC, to allow more time for testing. Justin
