Avalon-Excalibur Release Plan

[Leo Simons <le...@apache.org>]

(replies to dev@avalon.apache.org only please!)

Hi gang,

I would like to get releases together for Excalibur-Component, 
Excalibur-Event, Excalibur-Sourceresolve, Excalibur-Store and 
Excalibur-XMLUtil. These packages are currently being used in a 'CVS 
snapshot' form by the cocoon project. I'm volunteering to be the release 
manager and coordinate these releases.

Release candidates are available at

    http://www.apache.org/~leosimons/dist-candidates/avalon/

and will be periodically updated until no big blocker issues remain. I 
will also periodically post an overview of the remaining issues to the 
mailing list. I hope to have a final release ASAP, in time for the 
upcoming cocoon release. Issues will be tracked on the avalon 
development mailing list; everyone is requested to send details of any 
issues to the avalon development mailing list, as well as any patches 
and/or status updates.

I am calling for volunteers to help fix remaining issues and test the 
release candidate quality and functionality. Note that all the people on 
the following list:

  stefano,balld,ricardo,rubys,ben,zvia,giacomo,gears,bmclaugh,bloritsch,
  rossb,jeremy,dims,ssahuc,prussell,cziegeler,mman,sylvain,vgritsenko,
  haul,morrijr,crossley,ovidiu,tcurdt,gianugo,froehlich,huber,dirkx,
  butlermh,nicolaken,ivelin,kpiroumian,shannon,proyal,stephan,coliver,
  crafterm,acoliver,stevenn,bdelacretaz,mlangham,michaelm,jefft,pier,
  bruno,asavory,ghoward,andreas,alexmc,egli,gregor,michi,edith,felix,
  liyanage,memo,thorsten,joerg,upayavira,reinhard,ugo,gcasper,mpo,
  antonio,tony,unico,jon,charlesb,bloritsch,ramc,leosimons,neeme,jefft,
  giacomo,colus,rana_b,mirceatoma,cziegeler,froehlich,lmccay,leif,
  mcconnell,leosutic,jrudd,morpheus,crafterm,vinayc,proyal,nicolaken,
  huw,ymikulski,mschier,sylvain,atagunov,farra,hammett,akarasulu

have full access to the avalon-excalibur CVS and are invited to commit 
to it directly to help fix all issues.

thanks in advance for your help!


best regards,


- Leo Simons


Issue List
==========
Preferably, all critical issues and all major issues will be fixed 
before a release.

Critical issues
---------------
* Excalibur-Component testcase fails
* Excalibur-XMLUtil testcase fails
* Excalibur-XMLUtil now has a dependency on saxon7 v7.7; cocoon people 
must verify this is compatible with the upcoming cocoon release

Major issues
------------
* the documentation for Excalibur-Component on 
http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur/ is insufficient
* the documentation for Excalibur-Event on 
http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur/ is insufficient
* the documentation for Excalibur-Sourceresolve on 
http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur/ is insufficient
* the documentation for Excalibur-Store on 
http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur/ is insufficient
* the documentation for Excalibur-XMLUtil on 
http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur/ is insufficient

Minor issues
------------
* the javadocs for Excalibur-Sourceresolve are incomplete
* the javadocs for Excalibur-Store are incomplete
* the javadocs for Excalibur-XMLUtil are incomplete



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Re: Avalon-Excalibur Release Plan

[Leo Simons <le...@apache.org>]

Unico Hommes wrote:
> Leo Simons wrote:
>> Note that all the people on the following list:
>>
>>   stefano,balld,ricardo,rubys,ben,zvia,giacomo,gears,bmclaugh,bloritsch,
>>   rossb,jeremy,dims,ssahuc,prussell,cziegeler,mman,sylvain,vgritsenko,
>>   haul,morrijr,crossley,ovidiu,tcurdt,gianugo,froehlich,huber,dirkx,
>>   butlermh,nicolaken,ivelin,kpiroumian,shannon,proyal,stephan,coliver,
>>   crafterm,acoliver,stevenn,bdelacretaz,mlangham,michaelm,jefft,pier,
>>   bruno,asavory,ghoward,andreas,alexmc,egli,gregor,michi,edith,felix,
>>   liyanage,memo,thorsten,joerg,upayavira,reinhard,ugo,gcasper,mpo,
>>   antonio,tony,unico,jon,charlesb,bloritsch,ramc,leosimons,neeme,jefft,
>>   giacomo,colus,rana_b,mirceatoma,cziegeler,froehlich,lmccay,leif,
>>   mcconnell,leosutic,jrudd,morpheus,crafterm,vinayc,proyal,nicolaken,
>>   huw,ymikulski,mschier,sylvain,atagunov,farra,hammett,akarasulu
>>
>> have full access to the avalon-excalibur CVS and are invited to commit
>> to it directly to help fix all issues.
> 
> Are you sure? I tried to check out the code from eclipse and got:
> 
> : cvs server: failed to create lock directory for 
> `/home/cvs/avalon-excalibur' (/home/cvs/avalon-excalibur/#cvs.lock): 
> Permission denied
> : cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
> `/home/cvs/avalon-excalibur'

my guess is that the cvs avail permissions are right (which is where I 
got the list from) but you're missing from the correct group.

Avalon PMC, do we want to have all cocooners added to the avalon unix 
group? (An alternative might be another unix group, but I'm not so sure 
infrastructure will be too happy with that...IIRC there is some kind of 
hard limit on the number of groups...memory fuzzy...)

- LSD



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Re: Avalon-Excalibur Release Plan

[Unico Hommes <un...@hippo.nl>]

Leo Simons wrote:

> (replies to dev@avalon.apache.org only please!)
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> I would like to get releases together for Excalibur-Component,
> Excalibur-Event, Excalibur-Sourceresolve, Excalibur-Store and
> Excalibur-XMLUtil. These packages are currently being used in a 'CVS
> snapshot' form by the cocoon project. I'm volunteering to be the release
> manager and coordinate these releases.
> 
> Release candidates are available at
> 
>     http://www.apache.org/~leosimons/dist-candidates/avalon/
> 
> and will be periodically updated until no big blocker issues remain. I
> will also periodically post an overview of the remaining issues to the
> mailing list. I hope to have a final release ASAP, in time for the
> upcoming cocoon release. Issues will be tracked on the avalon
> development mailing list; everyone is requested to send details of any
> issues to the avalon development mailing list, as well as any patches
> and/or status updates.
> 
> I am calling for volunteers to help fix remaining issues and test the
> release candidate quality and functionality. Note that all the people on
> the following list:
> 
>   stefano,balld,ricardo,rubys,ben,zvia,giacomo,gears,bmclaugh,bloritsch,
>   rossb,jeremy,dims,ssahuc,prussell,cziegeler,mman,sylvain,vgritsenko,
>   haul,morrijr,crossley,ovidiu,tcurdt,gianugo,froehlich,huber,dirkx,
>   butlermh,nicolaken,ivelin,kpiroumian,shannon,proyal,stephan,coliver,
>   crafterm,acoliver,stevenn,bdelacretaz,mlangham,michaelm,jefft,pier,
>   bruno,asavory,ghoward,andreas,alexmc,egli,gregor,michi,edith,felix,
>   liyanage,memo,thorsten,joerg,upayavira,reinhard,ugo,gcasper,mpo,
>   antonio,tony,unico,jon,charlesb,bloritsch,ramc,leosimons,neeme,jefft,
>   giacomo,colus,rana_b,mirceatoma,cziegeler,froehlich,lmccay,leif,
>   mcconnell,leosutic,jrudd,morpheus,crafterm,vinayc,proyal,nicolaken,
>   huw,ymikulski,mschier,sylvain,atagunov,farra,hammett,akarasulu
> 
> have full access to the avalon-excalibur CVS and are invited to commit
> to it directly to help fix all issues.
> 

Are you sure? I tried to check out the code from eclipse and got:

: cvs server: failed to create lock directory for 
`/home/cvs/avalon-excalibur' (/home/cvs/avalon-excalibur/#cvs.lock): 
Permission denied
: cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
`/home/cvs/avalon-excalibur'

Any ideas?


Unico

> thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> 
> best regards,
> 
> 
> - Leo Simons
> 
> 
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