Release

[Matthieu Riou <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

The time has come to finally contemplate the possibility of a release. We've
cleared all our remaining IP issues (mostly regarding the WS-BPEL spec and
Hibernate usage, now replaced by OpenJPA) and we have a pretty stable
implementation now (perhaps a few rough edges left but we can fix this
before the release).

I've compiled release guidelines for our releases. Please take some time to
review them, I think we'll all need a basic degree of awareness of what's
needed for a release to be successful (or at least not a complete failure).
Ultimately we'll have to vote for it (or at least the PPMC) which is sort of
binding.

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ODExSITE/Release+Guidelines

Feel free to add what you think could be missing. A small issue left
unsolved (and potentially a very good bikeshed candidate) is the version
numbering scheme we're going to use. I'd propose the standard
major.minor.increment and start at 1.0. We could alternatively start with a
0.x although that wouldn't be my personal preference (we're passed the alpha
stage I think).

Now there's still a lot of work to do. Unless someone has more masochistic
inclinations than I do, I'm volunteering as "release manager" for the time
being. It's just to say that I'll do the grunt work of checking that we can
produce compliant artifacts. However there's a lot of common work that we
all have to accomplish before being able to release, mostly:

   - Cleanup our web site, add documentation where needed and give it a
   more polished and complete look.
   - Review all our pending issues for the coming
release<http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=12310270&fixfor=12312280>and
fix them. Eventually add more if something is missing.

Thanks,

Matthieu

Re: Release

[Matthieu Riou <ma...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the info.

On 3/19/07, Guillaume Nodet <gn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For signing jars, there is a maven plugin that can be used:
>   http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-gpg-plugin/
>
> On 3/16/07, Matthieu Riou <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The time has come to finally contemplate the possibility of a release.
> > We've
> > cleared all our remaining IP issues (mostly regarding the WS-BPEL spec
> > and
> > Hibernate usage, now replaced by OpenJPA) and we have a pretty stable
> > implementation now (perhaps a few rough edges left but we can fix this
> > before the release).
> >
> > I've compiled release guidelines for our releases. Please take some time
> > to
> > review them, I think we'll all need a basic degree of awareness of
> > what's
> > needed for a release to be successful (or at least not a complete
> > failure).
> > Ultimately we'll have to vote for it (or at least the PPMC) which is
> > sort of
> > binding.
> >
> > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ODExSITE/Release+Guidelines
> >
> > Feel free to add what you think could be missing. A small issue left
> > unsolved (and potentially a very good bikeshed candidate) is the version
> >
> > numbering scheme we're going to use. I'd propose the standard
> > major.minor.increment and start at 1.0. We could alternatively start
> > with a
> > 0.x although that wouldn't be my personal preference (we're passed the
> > alpha
> > stage I think).
> >
> > Now there's still a lot of work to do. Unless someone has more
> > masochistic
> > inclinations than I do, I'm volunteering as "release manager" for the
> > time
> > being. It's just to say that I'll do the grunt work of checking that we
> > can
> > produce compliant artifacts. However there's a lot of common work that
> > we
> > all have to accomplish before being able to release, mostly:
> >
> >    - Cleanup our web site, add documentation where needed and give it a
> >    more polished and complete look.
> >    - Review all our pending issues for the coming
> > release<http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=12310270&fixfor=12312280
> > >and
> > fix them. Eventually add more if something is missing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matthieu
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Guillaume Nodet
> ------------------------
> Architect, LogicBlaze (http://www.logicblaze.com/ )
> Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/

Re: Release

[Guillaume Nodet <gn...@gmail.com>]

For signing jars, there is a maven plugin that can be used:
  http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-gpg-plugin/

On 3/16/07, Matthieu Riou <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The time has come to finally contemplate the possibility of a release.
> We've
> cleared all our remaining IP issues (mostly regarding the WS-BPEL spec and
> Hibernate usage, now replaced by OpenJPA) and we have a pretty stable
> implementation now (perhaps a few rough edges left but we can fix this
> before the release).
>
> I've compiled release guidelines for our releases. Please take some time
> to
> review them, I think we'll all need a basic degree of awareness of what's
> needed for a release to be successful (or at least not a complete
> failure).
> Ultimately we'll have to vote for it (or at least the PPMC) which is sort
> of
> binding.
>
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ODExSITE/Release+Guidelines
>
> Feel free to add what you think could be missing. A small issue left
> unsolved (and potentially a very good bikeshed candidate) is the version
> numbering scheme we're going to use. I'd propose the standard
> major.minor.increment and start at 1.0. We could alternatively start with
> a
> 0.x although that wouldn't be my personal preference (we're passed the
> alpha
> stage I think).
>
> Now there's still a lot of work to do. Unless someone has more masochistic
> inclinations than I do, I'm volunteering as "release manager" for the time
> being. It's just to say that I'll do the grunt work of checking that we
> can
> produce compliant artifacts. However there's a lot of common work that we
> all have to accomplish before being able to release, mostly:
>
>    - Cleanup our web site, add documentation where needed and give it a
>    more polished and complete look.
>    - Review all our pending issues for the coming
> release<
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=12310270&fixfor=12312280
> >and
> fix them. Eventually add more if something is missing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthieu
>



-- 
Cheers,
Guillaume Nodet
------------------------
Architect, LogicBlaze (http://www.logicblaze.com/)
Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/