Tentative 1.8.0 Release Proposal

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

When I first seriously thought about volunteering as 1.8.0 release
manager it was late this summer and I thought I'd write a mail like this
in September.  Life interfered and there've been way more changes in
trunk than I initially thought, so now its almost christmas.

What I'd like to propose is mainly the usual release process we've
performed in the past as well, with a few tweaks: right now I wouldn't
create any branch (that can happen later) and I'd skip all alpha and
beta stages and start with a release candidate build right away.

Given that we still have to decide a naming issue (and write
documentation for the feature currently known as target-group) it's not
quite possible to set dates.  Hanukkah (almost over, right?), Christmas
and the New Year are certainly not going to make this easier.

If I'd be the one to create the release, I'll need some help by Kev
and/or Antoine to become able to compile the optional tasks with
commercial dependencies.  That being said, if Antoine wants to take
things over, I'll happily let him do so.

Sketch of a plan that could work:

* decide on a name for target-group: Dec 22

* build 1.8.0 RC1 and call for a vote on it: Dec 23

* release 1.8.0 RC1: not earlier than Dec 30, more likely early January

* build and vote on 1.8.0 final: three weeks after the release of RC1
  unless serious bugs turn up.

  Given that our users historically don't test RCs, it is pretty
  unlikely that the serious bugs will get noticed by then 8-)

Personally I'd love to come to shorter release cycles after that, more
like every three or four months - but see first paragraph.

Stefan

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Re: Tentative 1.8.0 Release Proposal

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2009-12-22, Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org> wrote:

> I'd better make sure all my funtest stuff is documented then, hadn't I

If you want it as part of 1.8.0, yes, better hurry up.

I have removed it from defaults.properties, BTW.

Stefan

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Re: Tentative 1.8.0 Release Proposal

[Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org>]

Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2009-12-18, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> If I'd be the one to create the release, I'll need some help by Kev
>> and/or Antoine to become able to compile the optional tasks with
>> commercial dependencies.  That being said, if Antoine wants to take
>> things over, I'll happily let him do so.
> 
> Even though Antoine shared all necessary jars with me, he'll take over
> as a release manager for this release because I'll be without a working
> JDK 1.4 installation for the next two weeks.  I hope to be available for
> subsequent releases.
> 
>> * decide on a name for target-group: Dec 22
> 
> are we there yet?
> 
>> * build 1.8.0 RC1 and call for a vote on it: Dec 23
> 

I'd better make sure all my funtest stuff is documented then, hadn't I

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Re: Tentative 1.8.0 Release Proposal

[Antoine Levy Lambert <an...@gmx.de>]

resending a mail which was considered spam by the ezmlm program
>  Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>> On 2009-12-18, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> If I'd be the one to create the release, I'll need some help by Kev
>>> and/or Antoine to become able to compile the optional tasks with
>>> commercial dependencies.  That being said, if Antoine wants to take
>>> things over, I'll happily let him do so.
>>>     
>>
>> Even though Antoine shared all necessary jars with me, he'll take over
>> as a release manager for this release because I'll be without a working
>> JDK 1.4 installation for the next two weeks.  I hope to be available for
>> subsequent releases.
>>
>>   
>>> * decide on a name for target-group: Dec 22
>>>     
>>
>> are we there yet?
>>   
> I think we need a vote. This wil delay the RC1 because we need to wait 
> until the vote results can be proclaimed (one week).
> If we vote, I suggest the alternative be :
>
> target-group/group
> extension-point/extensionOf
>>   
>>> * build 1.8.0 RC1 and call for a vote on it: Dec 23
>>>     
>>
>> I'll leave the concrete steps and dates to Antoine.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>   
> Regards,
>
> Antoine


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Re: Tentative 1.8.0 Release Proposal

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2009-12-18, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> If I'd be the one to create the release, I'll need some help by Kev
> and/or Antoine to become able to compile the optional tasks with
> commercial dependencies.  That being said, if Antoine wants to take
> things over, I'll happily let him do so.

Even though Antoine shared all necessary jars with me, he'll take over
as a release manager for this release because I'll be without a working
JDK 1.4 installation for the next two weeks.  I hope to be available for
subsequent releases.

> * decide on a name for target-group: Dec 22

are we there yet?

> * build 1.8.0 RC1 and call for a vote on it: Dec 23

I'll leave the concrete steps and dates to Antoine.

Stefan

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