Great job as the release manager Laszlo! Looking forward to having you as release manager for future releases.
Josh Juneau juneau...@gmail.com http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > On Dec 29, 2018, at 3:06 AM, Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > Laszlo, you did an amazing job -- and it's really awesome that you want to > continue doing it for the next release! > > Gj > >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:39 AM Antonio <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Laszlo, >> >> I think we all were honored you being our release manager. This release >> has been specially difficult, with unexpected roadblocks and required >> extra effort. Also thank you for volunteering as a 11.0 release manager. >> >> Regarding voting candidates / release candidates, some other projects do >> have release candidates ([1]). I see the "voting" and "release" just a >> naming convention, something that is useful for us to communicate. I >> think the important stuff is having NetCAT helping us decide if >> something is ready or not. Naming is just a cosmetic thing. >> >> +1 to adding BLOCKER to JIRA issues. In fact we could end up having a >> small dictionary for those. For instance, "BLOCKER" could mean to us >> "any reason (legal, technical or other) that may stop a release being >> published". >> >> Finally I'd add another enhancement: storing all NetBeans releases as a >> simple XML/YAML file somewhere in the website (with links, etc.), and >> have the website-tools generate page for us automatically with proper >> links. Apache is very strict on what a release page can have (proper >> urls, mirrors/archive, links to keys and checksums, not including github >> links, etc.) we may want to automate that in the future. >> >> Thanks again for making 10.0 a great release, and Happy New Year everybody, >> Antonio >> >> >> [1] >> https://spark.apache.org/release-process.html >> >> >>> El 29/12/2018 a las 1:11, Laszlo Kishalmi escribió: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I was honored being your release manager of Apache NetBeans (incubating) >>> 10.0. >>> >>> Thank you all, who contributed to this release and thank you for the >>> guidance, correcting me whenever was needed! >>> >>> When I applied as a volunteer, I thought it would be easier especially >>> after Geertjan and Emilian did a really great job releasing and >>> documented the process for 9.0. Special thanks for that! It has turned >>> out it is not enough to simply replicating the previous process, but we >>> needed to improve that. >>> >>> I needed to learn a lot about the Apache way, and along the road I made >>> a few mistakes, sometimes miscommunication, which could have been >>> annoying or look unprofessional. I'm sorry for that. I'm sure I was not >>> the best release manager for Apache NetBeans so far, I just hope I was >>> good enough. As of the future, if the community trusts me I apply as a >>> volunteer release manager for the upcoming Apache NetBeans 11.0 release. >>> >>> I see two major things need some improvement: >>> >>> I'm still not happy with the vote candidate naming convention. Even if >>> we had no public non GA release during the 10.0 cycle, We really had an >>> internal Beta 1 (10.0-vc1), Beta 2 (10.0-vc2) which we do not really had >>> the intent for offer voting on PPMC. We had an Release Candidate 1 >>> (10.0-vc3), which almost ended up being released and at the end we had >>> an RC3 (10.0 -vc5) which has been finally released as Apache NetBeans >>> (incubating) 10.0. I can live with that, though it is a bit strange to >>> assemble a vote candidate, knowing that the best vote you can give on >>> that is a -1. So first we need to decide if we would like to have public >>> betas and release candidates in the future or not. >>> >>> After last minute changes: We had a short lived vc4, as of vc3 has been >>> voted down on IPMC level having binary files in the source package. >>> Suddenly a handful of serious issue has appeared. I do not know how can >>> we help on this. There is only one thing I would add here. Please do not >>> hesitate mark every legal related concerns as BLOCKER in JIRA, even if >>> it is not a BLOCKER at all, we can't really let legal issues flying >>> under our radar. >>> >>> I was overall happy with the responsiveness of the community on the >> issues. >>> >>> I think Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 is a great release! >>> >>> Once again, Thank you for all! >>> >>> Laszlo Kishalmi >>> >>> Release Manager of Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10.0 >>> >>> P.S.: Constructive feedback on the my work and the process are more than >>> Welcome! >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org >>> >>> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> >> >>
