+1 We have already done with that extensive test this time, just a matter of doing some smoke and a regression test on the final RC.
And, I think time for the Synapse release is now going up and we may go with the custom build, as the Sandesha2 release seems to at least take another 3-4 days if not a week or more. Thanks, Ruwan On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Hiranya Jayathilaka <hiranya...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Andreas Veithen > <andreas.veit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think a Sandesha2 release is overdue, because the last one was done > > in 2007. This is also a good occasion to finalize the migration of the > > Sandesha2 site to the new TLP. The current site is actually in very > > bad shape: most of the pages are from the 1.0 release and have never > > been regenerated, the Javadocs are from 1.1 and the download page has > > been modified manually to include entries for 1.2 and 1.3. > > > > Interestingly, there has been work done on Sandesha2 1.4 [1] and > > Sandesha2 1.5 [2], but it appears that these efforts never went beyond > > release candidates, and the last official release is still 1.3. > > > > On the positive side: > > * Synapse reports that the current trunk works well. We also know that > > Sandesha2 is used as WS-RM implementation in IBM products. Since it > > doesn't look like there are new features being added, one may > > therefore assume that the code on the trunk is stable and in a > > releasable state. > > * When I did the Axis2 1.5.2 release, I think I tested the Sandesha2 > > build with that version and it worked well. Since there is also a > > quite recent Rampart release, I think we should not have difficulties > > to resolve the snapshot dependencies. > > > > To summarize, the only thing that needs to be done is to overhaul a > > bit the build and release system (so that we can make our lives easy > > by using Nexus), and to make sure that we can properly regenerate the > > Maven site with the correct information for the new Axis TLP. I > > already did some work on this over the weekend. Since I have > > experience with the Nexus stuff, I think I should be able to finish > > the job in a couple of days. > > > > What I will already do is to request inclusion of the > > org.apache.sandesha2 groupId in the Nexus staging profile. We also > > need to agree on the version number for the release. I think it should > > be 1.4 because the aforementioned release candidates have never been > > published officially. Leaving a gap and calling it 1.6 doesn't make > > sense to me. > > > > One final question for the Synapse people: from previous releases, I > > remember that after publishing the first release candidate, you do > > quite some extensive testing before proceeding to the final vote. This > > should give us the necessary time to work on the Sandesha2 release. > > Will we see this testing phase also for the Synapse 2.0 release? > > Well right now our junit tests report 100% success rate. I verified > 'all' the samples a few weeks back and fixed all the issues I > encountered. Some of the problems were corrected later by Ruwan as > well, so I think at the moment all the samples are working. I > personally don't think there's a requirement for an 'extensive' round > of testing. IMO some regressions tests should be good enough. > > Thanks, > Hiranya > > > > > Andreas > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/n62ht3mowl4axad7 > > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/r6nqw7tyq4i5wlqa > > > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 13:22, Ruwan Linton <ruwan.lin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Axis2 folks, > >> Synapse release has been dragging for too long and I am trying to do it > >> within tomorrow or day after tomorrow. We are using axis2 1.5.2 and > found > >> that the Rampart 1.5 is compatible with the Axis2 1.5.2 version, but not > >> Sandesha2 final release. > >> So my question is that, is it possible to get a Sandesha2 release out > within > >> the next couple of days? I have been trying a custom build from the > >> Sandesha2 trunk and it works for all the samples on the synapse. > >> If a compatible Sandesha2 release vote starts before I start the Synapse > >> release vote I will wait for that release to come out to call the > Synapse > >> vote, but if this is not possible I will continue with the custom build > of > >> the Sandesha2 with a proper warning on the documentation to not to use > it in > >> production and to use a proper release from the Sandesha2 site. > >> Please be kind enough to provide a Sandesha2 build ASAP, if at all > possible. > >> Thanks, > >> Ruwan > >> > >> -- > >> Ruwan Linton > >> Software Architect & Product Manager, WSO2 ESB; http://wso2.org/esb > >> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org > >> > >> Lean . Enterprise . 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