All, As we approach the end of summer (whatever you can call this travesty called june, july and august) we also approach a milestone in our development: the end of our development cycle for Wicket 1.5.
As far as I can tell, 1.5 has reached a point that it is ready to be released to our general user community. 1.5-rc7 hasn't shown any major problems for the core team's projects, and can be promoted to our general release (in my opinion). But before we start waving the flag and holding a ticker tape parade, I would like to do the following: - review the README.txt as it contains outdated information - review the release notes, merge them together? - review the migration guide, make it very easy to find in the wiki - write up a good release announcement with the major benefits for this release noted - updates to the README and release notes will trigger a new package, so we might need to re-build and re-vote I had hopes to provide is with a new website design, but the proposed solution is quite hard to implement, and I guess it will be difficult to maintain. So I'm opting for a simpler design, but will have to work on that. Next we will need to release a 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 etc. I imagine we should build a 1.5.1 after 3 weeks. I can also imagine a 1.5.2 3 weeks after that. At that time we should branch 1.5, EOL 1.4 and start work on the next wicket version. If nothing bad is found in 1.5.0 and we can release 1.5.1 with few issues, I propose branching and EOL-ing 1.4 at that moment. As for a timeline: I understand that tuesdays are the best day of the week to release software and announcements. As we need to flesh out the details, we have about a week for that (including votes and discussing this playbook). I propose we fix our release documentation in the coming days, ship 1.5.0 on tuesday 6 september and do a 3 weekly bug fix release until 1.5.2. Depending on the number of issues found and their severity of course. I suggest starting work on the next Wicket version when 1.5.x bug fixing takes less of our time. What do you guys think? Martijn
