Re: Release Review

Posted by Jacopo Cappellato on Sep 10, 2006; 9:45am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Incubator-September-Report-tp171490p171511.html

David,

this is a great document, really.
Just one quick note after a very first review:

in the section "Steps for a branch in preparation for a real release" I
think that the steps #1, 2, 3 (checkout, copy, commit) can be replaced
by one svn command (server side copy):

svn copy -m "" https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/trunk 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/branches/${branch-name}

(I have to check the syntax... this is off the top of my head)

Jacopo


David E Jones wrote:

>
> Sounds great Jacopo, I look forward to seeing feedback from you and others.
>
> BTW, for documenting the general release process I added a page here:
>
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE
>
> -David
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2006, at 1:04 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>