From: David E Jones <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Create Release Branch 2009.04
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 2:08 AM
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
>>
>
