Release procedure (was Re: [Fwd: [Vote] 1.0 Release - Do we ship it?])

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@apache.org>]

my vote was of course with the expectation that it passes the TCK...

This brings up an interesting question, and a novel one since passing  
the TCK is an additional step on our release procedures that most  
projects don't worry about and it is very critical for us.

1) Right now, we vote on releasing a certain rev # in SVN head.  I  
think this is important to continue to do independent of the TCK,  
because it establishes a base of agreement before the heavy lifting  
of TCK passing is done.  (Of course, CI might help ensure that the  
official TCK step is less work/less surprises)

2) We then branch/tag/whatever, produce a binary, and run the TCK.

So now comes the question, what next?  We've learned that offering  
the tested binaries to the public as a release candidate is good -  
people find problems.  So do we do that from now on as a matter of  
course for some time (x days) and then vote on the final release?

That way we all agree to live with whatever bugs were found in the  
release candidate (if there were any found) or decide that they were  
too severe, and we fix and then try again.

Are there alternatives?

geir

On Jan 3, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:

>>> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:21:30 -0500
>>> From: Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org>
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> We have had the last candidate out and available since 12/22.  I  
>>> personally have
>>> had a chance to put the 12/22 build under performance stress and  
>>> I'm satisfied
>>> that the build is stable and runs in a variety of modes using  
>>> DayTrader.
>>>
>>> Despite the Christmas Holidays I have seen some traffic related  
>>> to htis release
>>> on the list so some folks have been kicking it around as well.   
>>> At this time I'd
>>> like to call a vote to release 1.0.
>>>
>>> [ ] +1 Release 1.0
>>> [ ] -1 Do not release 1.0 (Reasons included)
>
> Does it pass the TCK?  I will vote no until it does.
>
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
>

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