+1 on the overall plan. +0 on making a release without a beta/rc cycle.
Cheers, Magesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:46 AM Subject: [VOTE] Ant 1.5.4 Release Plan > No long winded plan as this one should be rather trivial IMHO. > > The plan: > > * We don't commit anything to the 1.5 branch anymore (we don't so so > anyway). > > * On Monday August 11th during the morning (GMT) the release manager > syncs the website changes from the HEAD branch to the 1.5 branch and > creates a 1.5.4 release from it. Following the Release guidelines in > our CVS module. > > * The release will be put into our distribution directory and the > release manager will call for a PMC vote on it. > > * If the vote passes, the release will be announced to the public, > otherwise the files will be removed from the distribution area > again. > > Release Manager: > > I volunteer to take the role of the release manager, although I'll > probably need some help to get all optional dependencies together. > > Some notes: > > The only changes over 1.5.3 will be the changes to <javah> and the VAJ > tasks. Therefore I plan to explicitly state in the release notes as > well as the announcements that there is no reason to upgrade from > 1.5.3 unless you use <javah> on JDK 1.4.2 or VAJ. > > The announcement will also once again state that this is the last > (planned) Ant release that will run on a 1.1 Java VM. > > All changes are based on patches from people who had problems with the > two areas originally - and have been verified to work by multiple > people. Therefore I don't think we'll need a release candidate or > even beta build. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
