On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:17:41PM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: > > Let me know if there are any modifications or additions that should be > made to the release announcement.
comments below, none of them a "must" for the release announcement but still worth considering IMHO. > Also check the current release page on the wiki to make sure that we > aren't missing anything there. wiki updated, mainly to fix the incorrect instructions for manually updating the configuration files when using RPM. using the URL to point to the package source so it can be copy and pasted or used for browsers where "here" might not be that significant (like brayle readers) might be a good idea as well, but left unmodified for now as it will revert an earlier update. > If there aren't any changes to the announcement, I will go ahead and send > it out tomorrow morning (Tues. 9/9). OK, since our download link provides some RPM packages would be probably a good idea to point our DEB users to the debian experimental packages in : http://packages.debian.org/experimental/ganglia-monitor or for anyone brave enough to my unofficial windows binary "package" in http://tapir.sajinet.com.pe/ganglia/ganglia-3.1.1-bin.zip > The Ganglia Project (http://ganglia.info) is pleased to announce the > official release of Ganglia 3.1.1 I know this is standard wording, but could we not say we are "pleased" (at least I am not) considering this is a quick release following showstopper bugs that sneaked out in 3.1.0. and no, I am not trying to find anyone to blame or complain about release procedures or anything like that, but just saying that the used wording isn't accurately reflecting the fact that we don't want that to happen again and are working to avoid it (even if it might not be at all 100% possible due to our limited testing capability) > Supported platforms (additional testing requested): is "additional testing requested" leftover from a testing announcement or intentionally left here, and if so what does it mean? > Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation > (http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since > 3.0.7. could we say 3.0 instead here?, as technically 3.1 was forked around 3.0.5 and so there are some code changes from 3.0 that didn't make it, even if it might be correct for the documentation. also gives the false impression that 3.0 is closed for development with 3.0.7, which is not correct since 3.0.8 is being prepared to be release and the branch is still alive (at least in maintenance mode). > allowing a 3.0.x gmetad to continue to pull data from a newer 3.1.x gmond > cluster. this was pointed out in the previous release announcement as not a good idea, as it will result in : * hierarchical gmetad users having summarization problems with memory metrics * gmetric users having metrics moving as clusters are migrated from 3.0 it will be better if consistent with the release update instructions it will say instead : "allowing a 3.1 gmetad to continue to pull data from an old gmond cluster" Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
