Re: [External] : Re: [RELEASES] Getting ready for NetBeans 15 branching

[Martin Balin <ma...@oracle.com>]

Hi,
thanks’ for heads up.
Martin

> On 12. 7. 2022, at 21:11, Laszlo Kishalmi <la...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just an FYI: Going to upgrade Gradle Tooling to Gradle 7.5 as a PR (with JDK 18 Support) on Thursday/Friday. Right now Gradle 7.5 is in rc4, I hope Thursday it would hit GA, if not I'll create the PR with 7.5-rc4 and we could update to 7.5 during the NB 15 release phase.
> 
> I hope that would be fine with everyone!
> 
> 
> On 6/29/22 07:16, Neil C Smith wrote:
>> Hi Eric, Martin, Geertjan .. and everyone else,
>> 
>> Just thought I'd kick off a thread as it's getting near branching time
>> again.  Seems to come around quicker every time!  I also realised I
>> don't think we had the usual postmortem thread on NB14 either.  Any
>> points, changes, etc. to address for 15?
>> 
>> Few from me would be -
>> 
>> There were a couple of PRs in NB14 that to me didn't really meet the
>> criteria for merging to delivery, one which potentially held the
>> release up.  It's not a release team job to decide what gets merged -
>> that's for all reviewers.  And primarily, in my mind, the PR author
>> should be making the initial call.  I'd like to suggest that all
>> descriptions on PRs for delivery, at least when not linked to an
>> issue, should include a short justification for inclusion.  Thoughts?
>> 
>> On PRs, Martin, can you handle reviewing and merging delivery PRs (or
>> parts) that are VSCode related?  Obviously need to schedule around
>> syncing and RC builds.  Whenever I merge to delivery, I try to test
>> the fix, check for potential conflicts, think about highlighting in RC
>> emails, etc.  But for me that's with the IDE in mind rather than the
>> VSCode plugin.
>> 
>> As discussed elsewhere, I've added a GitHub label for Highlight, to
>> try and start flagging PRs that are changes to highlight in release
>> notes, announcements, etc.  Possibly need to apply some
>> retrospectively for 15.
>> 
>> 
>> I should be OK for all of this release cycle - sorry I had to duck out
>> for much of the last one.  I'm happy to handle the initial branch and
>> configuration around July 15th, unless anyone else wants to?  Anyone
>> else got commitments, holidays, etc. to consider this time around?
>> Summer release always a fun one.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Neil
>> 
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