A lightweight method is to create a TAG in SVN for each RC and also for ALPHA and BETA, and then cut a branch when releasing 4.0.0 Regarding CHANGES, it should have full-blown sections for 4.0.0-ALPHA and 4.0.0-BETA, but for e.g. 4.0.0-BETA-RC2 it should be enough with a marker line in CHANGES.TXT to indicate which issues are included before and after the RC. That way we can build and tag RC's often with little effort, and when the final release is done, these marker lines can be removed if we wish.
For ALPHA/BETA I think we should also add a new section to CHANGES.TXT to highlight known major issues which are still blockers for final release. This is how it could look like: ================== 4.0.0-ALPHA ================== : : IMPORTANT: This is not a final release and we encourage you to use the latest stable release for production use. Known critical issues in this ALPHA ----------------------------------- * SOLR-YYYY: Index gets corrupted every monday :-) Detailed Change List ---------------------- New Features ---------------------- * SOLR-XXXX: Foo bar (myself) ------------ 4.0.0-ALPHA-RC1 includes changes above this line ------------ * SOLR-XXXX: Foo bar (myself) * SOLR-XXXX: Foo bar (myself) ------------ 4.0.0-ALPHA-RC2 includes changes above this line ------------ * SOLR-XXXX: Foo bar (myself) -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com On 27. juni 2012, at 04:10, Mark Miller wrote: > I put a new changes entry after the alpha under the 4-Alpha release in > CHANGES.txt for Solr. > > I missed the discussion if there was one, but if we plan to have a CHANGES > section for alphas and betas, let me know, and I'll move that entry when we > start a new section. > > We should add the next section soon if we are going to so it's clear what > direction we are taking. > > - Mark Miller > lucidimagination.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
