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Posted to svn@forrest.apache.org by cr...@apache.org on 2004/09/25 09:22:11 UTC
svn commit: rev 47188 - forrest/trunk/etc
Author: crossley
Date: Sat Sep 25 00:22:10 2004
New Revision: 47188
Modified:
forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
Log:
Update the release notes.
Modified: forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
==============================================================================
--- forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt Sat Sep 25 00:22:10 2004
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
<release version="0.4" date="2002-02-13">
...
- - Edit src/resources/forrest-shbat/forrest.build.xml, and update the version
- tag embedded in the Ant script:
+ - Edit src/core/forrest.build.xml, and update the version tag which is
+ embedded in the Ant script:
| Forrest Site Builder |
| 0.4-dev |
@@ -49,16 +49,20 @@
- Run 'build release-dist' to generate the distributions.
- - Test the distribution.
- FIXME: We need to define how to do this.
+ - Test the actual distribution on various platforms.
+ - Put the tar.gz and the zip file at a committers' Apache website.
+ - Ask all developers to download and test (command-line, run, and webapp).
+ - Use it to build some difficult sites.
- - FIXME: Describe how to sign releases and generate MD5 and PGP.
+ - Understand how to sign releases and generate MD5 and PGP.
http://wiki.apache.org/old/SigningReleases
- If everything looks okay, tag CVS with 'cvs tag FORREST_xy', where 'xy' is a
compact form of the version (eg 04, 041, 05). Run 'cvs log build.xml' to
see existing tags.
+FIXME: update for SVN.
+
- For 0.x releases, create a maintenance branch in CVS with 'cvs tag -b
FORREST_xy_BRANCH'.
@@ -86,19 +90,22 @@
announcement, and then commit the new HTML to xml-site/targets/forrest
Note that they still use forrest-0.5.1 to build their website.
- - Send announcement email. Typically this is sent to
- announcements@xml.apache.org and announcements@jakarta.apache.org,
- with Cc to dev@forrest.apache,org
+ - Send announcement email. Typically this is sent as:
+ To: dev@forrest.apache.org, user@forrest.apache.org, announce@apache.org,
+ announcements@xml.apache.org
+ Subject: [Announce] Apache Forrest X.Y.Z released
!! Always refer them to the mirror facility
!! Never mention the URL www.apache.org/ dist/ in email.
As for the announcement format, see previous releases:
-0.2: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=103746673310573&w=2
-0.3: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=104399934113331&w=2
-0.4: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-announce&m=104510734501302&w=2
+0.2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=103746673310573
+0.3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=104399934113331
+0.4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-announce&m=104510734501302
+0.5 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=106352706005681
+0.5.1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=106541447606765
- - Ask Jeff Turner to do the freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net/) announcement,
- or add you as an admin.
+ - Ask Jeff Turner to do the freshmeat announcement, or add you as an admin.
+ http://freshmeat.net/projects/forrest/
Cleanups
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