OOPS sorry I was confused then. I was under the impression that was RC branch, 
this makes sense to me know.

+ 1 for the branch and this process.

Suresh

On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Chathura Herath wrote:

> To be in accordance with release guidelines the release candidate
> should be called version-incubating-SNAPSHOT. "Stable" is the branch
> we use to test so people can test while bugs are getting fixed, i
> didnt invent this. Probably at the end of the day testing will move to
> the branch which will be the release candidate. So i see no violation
> of the process as is, unless you could point me to a document that
> says otherwise.
> 
> This is in accordance with release management for svn written by our
> old friend Leo 
> (http://lsimons.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/using-long-lived-stable-branches/)
> which is the advised svn management strategy endorsed by the
> (http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#guidelines.
> )
> 
> I am not at the point where i can call a release candidate, still in
> the testing phase. We can name it accordingly when we call for release
> candidate and the vote.
> 
> Thanks
> Chathura
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Chathura,
>> 
>> Please revert this branch, lets follow the following version semantics.
>> 
>> Here is the normal process how the release plugging works:
>> *We include apache pom as the parent - 
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/pom/trunk/maven/pom.xml
>> *Always trunk should be having next version and -incubating-snapshot suffix, 
>> so the current trunk should be 0.2-incubating-SNAPSHOT
>> *The release preparation among other things will automatically do the 
>> following to tags and versions:
>> **Tag the trunk to airavata-0.2-incubating
>> ** stage the jars and source to nexus repository staging area
>> **after the release steps are complete, it will automatically bump the trunk 
>> to 0.3-incubating-SNAPSHOT
>> 
>> So the following corrections are required:
>> 1) Delete the currently created "stable" branch
>> 2) branch the trunk to "0.2-incubating-SNAPSHOT" so the release goals will 
>> work.
>> 3) do not worry about trunk pom's and continue working on the code
>> 4) if release steps are followed the branch will be tagged and branch 
>> version will be bumped to 0.3-incubating-SNAPSHOT
>> 5) After release is successful, merge any code and pom's (to make the trunk 
>> back to 0.3-incubating-SNAPSHOT).
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Chathura Herath wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Devs,
>>> 
>>> I have branched the trunk to branch/stable. Please continue to work on
>>> any fixes you may run into i will merge them before we tag it to the
>>> 0.2.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Chathura Herath
>>> http://people.apache.org/~chathura/
>>> http://chathurah.blogspot.com/
>> 
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> 
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> Chathura Herath
> http://people.apache.org/~chathura/
> http://chathurah.blogspot.com/

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