I should be fine - I've done this before with Bigtop and Whirr, which is why I volunteered to RM our first release. =) I'll try to put together a checklist of pre-release tasks we've got to get done on Thursday, and then a release candidate evaluation checklist as well.
The wiki isn't set up yet, right? I don't think Adrian's opened a ticket for that... A. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Matt Stephenson <[email protected]>wrote: > Awesome, is there anything anyone can help you with? It sounds like a > sizeable amount of work for one person. > > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > So overall, I'd like to try to get a first RC ready for review by > everyone > > by Wednesday (May 29th) next week - I get home very late Wednesday night > > this week, but have a bunch of work to deal with for the rest of the > week, > > so the additional time would be handy. > > > > After we get a first RC, we (the project and our mentors) should review > > everything for a couple days, with the goal of getting the for-realz RC > up > > for an official vote by the PPMC (us) and IPMC (the incubator PMC) by end > > of day on that Friday, May 31st. With the standard 72 hour (excluding > > weekends) voting window, that'll give us a shot at having an official ASF > > release of 1.6.1-incubating done by end of day the following Wednesday, > > June 5th. But odds are that there'll be flaws in the RC we submit to the > > IPMC that'll need correcting, with some iteration/new votes, etc. That's > > why I'm targeting Friday May 31st for the start of the vote - that gives > me > > an extra 48 hours over the weekend to deal with nitpicking. =) > > > > How does that sound to everyone? I know it's not quite as fast as we > might > > like, but I'd rather be safe than sorry, and I want to make sure I have > the > > time to do this release properly *and* document the hell out of > everything > > so that, say, Andrew Philips can handle the next one without needing me > to > > do much of anything. =) > > > > A. > > >
