RE: [DISCUSS] Ripple Release

[Tim Barham <Ti...@microsoft.com>]

Thanks for the response, Brent, and sorry for my tardiness getting back to you - I've been travelling (return from time in Redmond back to my home in Brisbane, Australia), followed by jetlag followed by getting sick :). But anyways... I'm back on this now.

I was looking into getting a couple of additional fixes into this release, but in the end decided the priority was to get the release out. I am about to send out a PR with the following changes:

1. Updated version in package.json to 0.9.25
2. Listed changes in CHANGELOG.md.

If you accept this PR, would you then be able to apply the "0.9.25" tag? Then I'll be able to build an up-to-date package.

Thanks!

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Lintner [mailto:brent.lintner@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:23 AM
To: dev@ripple.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Ripple Release

Hey Tim,

Sorry for my haphazard participation and delayed reply. Thanks for the PR for the header file updates! Your help is greatly appreciated and welcome.
:-D

>> I'm working on Windows (surprise :) ), and hit some issues building
Ripple

I'm personally sorry that Windows support is not on par. Glad you can get it working with a Cygwin terminal. It has been something that some have contributed to, but, alas, we were naughty (back in the day) and did not give Windows as much love as it needed/deserved. :-(

To somewhat answer your questions:

>> 1. Do we need to update the version number before doing a release? If
so, to what (currently 0.9.24)?

I'd say, yes. Even though small (code) changes have happened, there has not been a tagged unofficial "release" that encompasses those contributions.
(IMO: as long as it is http://semver.org based, all good!).

>> 2. I've signed the package, but my PGP certificate has not been
authenticated by anyone in the Apache "web of trust", so I may need to sort that out.

It seems Ross already helping with the PGP issue (sorry for my lack of
insight..)

>> 3. Is there somewhere I can put the package for people to take a look at?

Not too sure myself, there. I admit I am a bit of rogue when it comes to more ASF specific things. ;-) My suggestion of Dropbox or something is probably not cool, heh. Hopefully someone else can give an idea of where to host the package. I want to say there is a way to host files via our personal apache accounts...

All the best,

On Fri Jan 30 2015 at 18:43:11 Tim Barham <Ti...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ross!
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) [mailto:Ross.Gardler@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:28 PM
> To: dev@ripple.incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Ripple Release
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for stepping up. As you probably know Ripple is not a very 
> active project right now. If there is no take up from the community 
> then the projects mentors will step up to help you get your work done. 
> For now - keep it up, and thnks.
>
> Ross
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Barham [mailto:Tim.Barham@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:11 PM
> To: dev@ripple.incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Ripple Release
>
> Hi all,
>
> First I would like to introduce myself - my name is Tim Barham, and 
> I'm on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft. I've been doing some work 
> on Cordova, and am currently working to help get a release of Ripple 
> out. However, I'm completely new to the process, so would certainly appreciate any tips!
>
> First steps for me have been to get a package put together. I'm 
> working on Windows (surprise :) ), and hit some issues building Ripple 
> (similar to that recently described by Venkata Kiran). However, I was 
> able to get the build working by running it in a Cygwin terminal.
>
> I've created a package by leveraging some of the tools that have been 
> created for Cordova (in cordova-coho). But I have a few questions:
>
> 1. Do we need to update the version number before doing a release? If 
> so, to what (currently 0.9.24)?
> 2. I've signed the package, but my PGP certificate has not been 
> authenticated by anyone in the Apache "web of trust", so I may need to 
> sort that out.
> 3. Is there somewhere I can put the package for people to take a look at?
> 4. I found some source files that look to me like that should have the 
> Apache 2.0 headers but don't. Should I just make the changes and open 
> a pull request? Here are the files:
>
>     lib/server/emulate/cordovaProject.js
>     lib/server/emulate/static.js
>     lib/client/ui/plugins/about-dialog/dialog.html
>     lib/client/ui/plugins/confirm-dialog/dialog.html
>     lib/client/ui/plugins/exec-dialog/dialog.html
>     lib/client/ui/plugins/settings-dialog/dialog.html
>
> I'm working my way through the relevant Apache documents, and I'm sure 
> I'll have more questions, but in the meantime any help would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
>
> On 1/21/15, 1:15 PM, "Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH)"
> <pa...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Thanks Christian.
> >
> >Kiran, I agree with you about the plan. We should definitely discuss 
> >the future plans. There have also been some discussions on the 
> >Cordova mailing list about how Ripple could be leverage better, and 
> >some prototypes have been built. We should look at working on the 
> >plan separately from this DISCUSS thread.
> >
> >Community, does anyone have opinions on how best to work on a 
> >roadmap, and do you guys think a roadmap is required?
> >
> >On 1/21/15, 12:18 PM, "Christian Grobmeier" <gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>+1 from me also.
> >>
> >>I am willing to help in the first review of the release and dig with 
> >>you folks through the release stuff. My knowledge is not perfect, 
> >>but I am absolutely sure the rest of the IPMC will have something to say.
> >>
> >>Also I would like to highlight what Ross said: the first release is 
> >>painful, but the second is already pretty smoothly. To keep it like 
> >>that it perfectly makes sense to document the release process as 
> >>good as we can.
> >>
> >>Here is some first document to read:
> >>http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
> >>http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
> >>
> >>Basically these are the most important requirements:
> >>
> >> - all code is covered by CLA/ICLA (it is the case now)
> >> - all code reflects the AL 2.0 headers
> >> - all dependencies are named with their respective licenses (NOTICE
> >> file)
> >> - we have LICENSE file
> >> - we have signed the release, we provide an md5 (to my knowledge, 
> >> some variations might apply)
> >> - we provide a KEYS file
> >> - we release source files first, then optionally binary files
> >> - we release on our own hardware. Everything else (like NPM) is 
> >> optional
> >> - we need to vote on the release with +1 or -1. -1 is usually not 
> >> blocking, but we should take it serious (only code -1 is blocking)
> >> - we must not forgot to notify the IPMC, see IPMC rules
> >>
> >>It's all I can think of right now.
> >>
> >>Please keep the ball rolling, thanks a lot Parashuram!
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Christian
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, Jan 21, 2015, at 17:08, Venkata Kiran wrote:
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >>> Also I think we should document the roadmap on what are the 
> >>>enhancements/bug  fixes and approximate time frame on when they can 
> >>>be expected. I know  this  will not be 100% but it can be updated 
> >>>as the plan changes.I think this  will  help the existing 
> >>>contributors to focus on few things instead of  scattering  over 
> >>>large set of things. Also this may encourage the new Contributors 
> >>>to  easily step in on the enhancements they wish to have.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks & Regards,
> >>> --Kiran
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
> >>> [mailto:Ross.Gardler@microsoft.com]
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:56 AM
> >>> To: dev@ripple.incubator.apache.org
> >>> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Ripple Release
> >>>
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >>> Thank you Parashu. As I said before I am here to help as a mentor.
> >>>Given
> >>> the
> >>> status of this podling I believe we will need to go to the IPMC to 
> >>>get  the  necessary binding votes.
> >>>
> >>> Since this is the first formal release from this project it is 
> >>> likely that we will need a very close eye on the details of the 
> >>> legal checklist (certainly the IPMC will be thorough in this 
> >>> regard). After this first release subsequent releases should be 
> >>> much easier.
> >>>
> >>> Ross
> >>>
> >>> Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
> >>> A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH) [mailto:panarasi@microsoft.com]
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:18 PM
> >>> To: dev@ripple.incubator.apache.org
> >>> Subject: [DISCUSS] Ripple Release
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I wanted to start a discuss thread on making an official release 
> >>> for Ripple.
> >>> We would be picking up the latest from the master branch, tag it 
> >>> as a release candidate (version 0.9.24) and follow the process as 
> >>> in 
> >>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-li
> >>> st
> >>>
> >>> Will this be something that the community would be interested in ?
> >>>Please
> >>> +1, and raise any questions in this [DISCUSS] thread.
> >>>
> >
>
>
>