Re: [VOTE] uima-sdk-3.0.0-alpha02 rc4

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Fixed the subject line... to say rc4, since rc3 was thrown away (see below)


On 3/11/2017 9:09 AM, Marshall Schor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The 4th release candidate for 3.0.0-alpha02 is posted and ready for voting.
>
> After some problems with the network getting to the dist-svn yesterday, I managed to upload rc4 this morning.
>
> rc3 was thrown away because of a fault in uploading to repository.apache.org - apparently some network glitch happened during the upload which caused my local (source) computer to acquire a new network address, which, in turn, caused the upload to become split into two different uploads.
>
> The main changes since 3.0.0-alpha02-rc4 are: 
>
> [UIMA-5349] uv3 migration tool duplicating generating comments
> [UIMA-5361] uv3 migration tool - wrong defaulting for temp output directory
>
>
> -------------
> The main changes done in 3.0.0-alpha02-rc2 were:
>
> [UIMA-5321] update lic/notice for slf4j
> [UIMA-5319] fix api change report to delta from 2.9.0 level, also drop (filter
> out) _Type and .internal. things to make the report more meaningful
> update logging docs -  v3 user guide
> [UIMA-5335] relax xml schema to allow index labels to have blanks in them
> switch default logger to slf4j in factory config
> [UIMA-5324] add logger suppression support
> [UIMA-5346] fix to fs equals and sortCompare
> [UIMA-5343] make logger levels match uimaFIT mappings
> [UIMA-5353] upgrade uimaj-ep-debug plugin to use current earlyStartup api, old
> one no longer working without the old compatibility package
>
> ---------------------
>
> The main changes done in rc1 for alpha02 were:
>
>  - Eclipse update site is now separate - it's under it's own high-level folder,
> uimaj-v3-pre-production
>
>  - the main eclipse update site was updated to include this as an additional
> subsite.
>
>  - The "select" framework APIs had javadocs added and some fixes which resulted
> in API changes for some methods.
>
>  - Logging was upgraded in two ways:  The log4j back end for the UIMA logger was
> upgraded to log4j 2 (the current version).
>   And, support was added for the slf4j logging facade.
>
>  - changes made to uimaj-2.9.0 were merged.
>
>  - Various implementations of UIMA built-in types which have corresponding Java
> 8 non-boxing versions of methods were
>     augmented to support non-boxing alternatives; see the API changes report for
> details.
>
>  - a new report is available (similar to issues fixed) in the source-release and
> binary distributions called api-change-report.html.
>
> ----------- (from the first alpha release vote: -------------
>
> If you happen to use JCas in your pipelines, and have JCas classes other than
> the standard built-in ones, these classes will need to be regenerated or
> migrated.  If you use the Maven JCasGen plugin to generate the JCas classes as
> part of your project's build, your good - nothing special need be done.
>
> There is a migration tool, and there are scripts to run it, as well as Eclipse
> launch configurations to run it.  The instructions for running this are in a new
> documentation "book", part of the binary distribution (html and pdf) - it's
> called the Uima V3 User's Guide.
>
> The guide also has an overview section which lists the new features of this
> release.  Many of these need more test cases written for them; I'm happy to
> mentor any volunteers who want to improve the testing  .
>
> ---------------------
>
> The list of changes in Jira: 
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%203.0.0SDK-alpha02
>
> The source and binary zip/tars and the Eclipse update site are staged to
>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/uimaj-v3/alpha02-rc4
>
> The eclipse update site is a folder called "uimaj-v3-pre-production"
> The artifacts are in the folder "artifacts".
>
> The Maven artifacts are here: 
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1128/
>
> The SVN tag is here:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/tags/uimaj-3.0.0-alpha02/
>
>
> Please vote on release:
>
> [ ] +1 OK to release
> [ ] 0   Don't care
> [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ...
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Marshall
>
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