Okay, at long last the release branch is created. The URL for it is:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release09.04
Tim Ruppert will be heading up build and demo resources for this in
the near future, and for now it is in SVN.
Just as with the release4.0 branch this now means as contributors to
the trunk we should watch out for fixes that should also go into the
branch and apply them there as well.
Thanks to everyone who has helped, and everyone who is continuing to
help, with this.
-David
On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:59 PM, David E Jones wrote:
[+1] Binding: David, Adrian, Anil, Scott, Jacopo
[+1] Non-binding: Sam, Tim, Ashish, Vikas, Bruno, Pranay, Shi,
Marco, Ravindra
[+0]: 0
[-1]: 0
Based on this result (more than 3 binding +1 votes and more +1 than
-1 votes) the vote has passed.
In respect for comments about the time, I'll wait for about 12 hours
more from the time of this email (that makes it mid-day Thursday my
time) to do the actual branch. If anyone would like to vote after
this that's fine, but unless something major comes up we'll consider
this vote binding and do the release branch as has been planned for
(though ~1.5 days after). With that timing the press release should
go out early (probably Monday) of next week, for those interested in
such things.
-David
On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:14 PM, David E Jones wrote:
Today is the day we have discussed for a while! A lot of
improvements and fixes have gone in over the last few weeks, but it
is important to remember that the release branch is primarily time-
based and is a "line in the sand" as it were to begin the effort of
stabilizing a specific code base so that end-users who want
stability over features have that option. Some things make it in,
and other things don't make it, and that is true no matter when we
draw the line (but we don't want to delay it forever). What we have
in place it a HUGE improvement over the release4.0 branch, and that
is the most important point to keep in mind.
Along with that there is a planned press release coordinated with
the Apache Software Foundation Public Relations Committee (that's a
mouthful! no wonder we use acronyms like: ASF PRC) for tomorrow
morning (Wed 15 April).
That said, the target date/time for the release branch is later
tonight (and when I say tonight I mean according to USA time, just
to clarify). To follow the date pattern we have discussed and make
it clearly a date I'm thinking of the actual name for the branch
directory to be "release200904" (and please feel free to comment on
that if you think something else is better).
However, that I will only do that IFF we have a positive vote for
the release, hence this message!
Please vote:
[+1] Create the release branch tonight, April 14th (it will be
April 15th for GMT-0)
[+0] Abstain
[-1] Do not create the release branch tonight
Please remember that everyone is free to (and encouraged to!) vote,
but only the PMC votes are binding.
Thanks to everyone who has made this possible with amazing
contributions over the last 2 years, and a heightened activity in
recent weeks and months to make this a spectacular release.
-David