Re: Release Review

Posted by Jacopo Cappellato on Sep 10, 2006; 8:04am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Incubator-September-Report-tp171490p171509.html

David,

that's great news, thanks for working on this.
I will download and test the release and I will provide feedback.

I really hope that also others will help on this in the next few days:
after this we could be ready to complete the release process and ask for
graduation.

Jacopo

David E Jones wrote:

>
> On this topic... I've been looking at the release stuff and decided to
> just go for it...
>
> For this initial RC1 for version 4.0.0 I decided to go with the tag
> route and we'll do a branch later when we're ready to do a final
> release. The "tag" in this case is just an svn "soft" tag, ie the
> implicit tag from the revision number (see the REVISION) file in the
> archive. A real tag in SVN is pretty much the same as a branch and I
> think is a little heavier than what we need for this.
>
> Before moving on to the next step we need to review this among
> ourselves. Here is a list of things that I can think of that we need
> review in this:
>
> 1. test un-archive and run as-is (should only require JDK installed)
> 2. identify and show-stopper bugs that we should fix before a real RC
> 3. check all ASF required files (NOTICE, LICENSE, KEYS, etc) and headers
> 4. check PGP and MD5 files
> 5. anything else?
>
> Anyone who feels comfortable looking at these things, please do and
> comment as needed!
>
> The files are posted for initial review as attachments on the
> docs.ofbiz.org site to this page:
>
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/wAE
>
> Thanks in to everyone for your help getting to this point, and of course
> your help reviewing this so we can move to the next step!
>
> -David
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:39 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>
>> I've prepared a draft of the Incubator September report here:
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2006
>>
>> The next OFBiz report will be due in December... do you think it is
>> possible to try to graduate before that date? Who can help to wrap up
>> the release candidate of OFBiz (that is the very last task we have to
>> complete, even if it is not a mandatory task)?
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>>