I checked the Daffodil JIRA to see how many blocker, critical, and major issues
we have so far:
Blocker issues: 0
Critical issues: 1
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2400 - New SAX API
causes performance degradations
Major issues: 132
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2574 - Cast error when
multiplying two unsignedBytes
and so on - too many to list individually
The critical issue isn't a blocker and in fact hasn't been updated since
October 2020 (1 year ago). I see Daffodil's release plan in
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DAFFODIL/Roadmap+for+Upcoming+Releases
already suggests reducing the number of JIRA issues between 3.2.0 and 3.3.0
which sounds like a good plan. Everything planned for 3.2.0 seems to be
already checked off.
I looked over the instructions in
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DAFFODIL/Release+Workflow carefully
and preparing a release candidate looks doable but still a time-consuming bit
of work. Since we already have a volunteer, I'd rather wait for another
release (thanks Mike).
The first step in the Release workflow says to create a [DISCUSS] thread and
allow time for discussion before creating the release candidate. I've renamed
this email's subject to start that formal thread and I'm fine with waiting less
than 72 hours if we get responses from everyone we know who might be working on
anything that they want to release in 3.2.0. I plan to make some more changes
and improvements to the Daffodil C code generator myself but the changes can go
into 3.3.0 since I already build Daffodil from source anyway. Is Steve
Lawrence or John Wass working on something that should make it into 3.2.0?
Anyone else?
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Beckerle <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 1, 2021 1:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: EXT: Are we ready to release 3.2.0 Daffodil ?
I believe 3.2.0 is functionally complete.
Should we prepare a release candidate that we can vote on?
We need someone to volunteer to be release manager.
I am willing to do so, as I've not done this for several releases. However, if
someone else who hasn't done one would like a chance, I will defer to them.
