David Crossley wrote: > We need people to test the release candidate on your projects, > especially on different operating systems and Java version. > Send a short reply to this thread that it works for you. > See method below. > > Download the release candidate and supporting files:
Moved the release candidate rc1 to a new URL. An enthusiastic user asked other users to use it. http://people.apache.org/~crossley/temp/forrest-08-rc1/ If you already have it then the files are the same. -David > For Windows get *.zip md5sum aa7b786b3586fe7a6e131052c8e213f2 > For UNIX get *.tar.gz md5sum a593dbb1c04ff20dfd318063997d65db > Get the *.asc and *.md5 that match your chosen download. > > It was packed from SVN revision 527170. > > Java 1.4 or later is required. > > Testing and vote period concludes Monday 2007-04-16 at 22:00 UTC [2]. > Anyone can test and vote, not just PMC members. > However only the PMC votes are binding [3]. > > When voting, quote the md5sum to ensure that we are all > using the correct release candidate package. The votes > need to happen against the final release package. > > PMC members need to satisfy themselves that the actual > final release package meets the ASF principles. > > Please wait with voting until towards the end of the > week, as we may need to build a second release candidate > if there are any changes to the code or documentation [1]. > > During this week we do need to hear about successes > or failures. Please report your operating system > and Java versions and Jetty/Tomcat versions. > > So we have approximately 6 days. > > Here are some hints: > > * Verfiy the release, especially if you are a committer. > Follow: http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi#verify > * Ensure that the compressed archive will unpack properly. > * Follow the README.txt and index.html > * Set $FORREST_HOME and $PATH appropriately. > * Try it with different Java versions. > * Try it with different versions of Apache Tomcat or Jetty. > * Many known issues are already recorded at our Jira. > * Don't worry too much about minor bugs. We are looking > for blockers, such as it will not run. > * Please add other discovered issues to Jira. > > * Make a fresh site ... > cd my-new-dir > forrest seed > forrest run ... use the local jetty server. > forrest ... build the whole site from the command-line. > forrest war ... use your own full Jetty or Tomcat. > > * Try it on the Forrest core docs ... > cd site-author > forrest run > forrest > > * Forrest was already pre-built. Try building it again. > cd main > build clean > build > build test > > * Try it on your own project, especially if you have > a project sitemap and use some extra plugins. > > * If you are a user of forrestbot then try that. > > * Try building and installing the forrestbar. > > ------------------------------ > [1] create final release candidate > Saturday 2007-04-14 at 22:00 UTC > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=14&month=04&year=2007&p1=136&p2=48&p3=176&p4=240&p5=224&p6=213 > > [2] end of vote on final release candidate and commence the upload phase > Monday 2007-04-16 at 22:00 UTC > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=16&month=04&year=2007&p1=136&p2=48&p3=176&p4=240&p5=224&p6=213 > http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=4&day=16&year=2007&hour=22 > > [3] "A lazy majority vote requires > 3 binding +1 votes and more binding +1 votes than -1 votes". > http://forrest.apache.org/guidelines.html#actions
