Hi Hiranya, Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]> wrote on 11/29/2010 01:28:01 PM:
> Hi Michae;, > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Michael Glavassevich > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Hiranya, > > > > Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]> wrote on 11/29/2010 12:05:33 AM: > > > >> Hi Michael, > >> > >> Is our release process documented somewhere? > > > > It could do with some improvements (some of the details are out-of-date / > > missing since it was written long ago) but it's documented here [1]. Voting > > on signed packages is an ASF requirement and needs to occur beforestep 8 in > > this process. > > Thanks for the info > > > > >> I'm just curious to know why we don't branch out of the trunk when > >> doing a release. > > > > 2.11.0 was tagged on Friday. Any commits going on the trunk (or the XML > > Schema 1.1 development branch) at this point would be for a follow-on > > release. We've never made any other "maintenance" branches because there's > > never been a need for one. We've always just moved forward. > > For this to work properly, shouldn't we consider the trunk to be > 'frozen' during a release cycle? It generally has been. Have never had to announce a code freeze because the committers on previous releases have known to hold off on making changes in this relatively short (critical) period around a release. Seems like common sense to me, but perhaps we should start formally declaring one as (relatively) newer contributors to the project may not recognize that. > Thanks, > Hiranya > > > > >> Thanks, > >> Hiranya > > > > ... > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > Thanks. > > > > [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-contributing.html#faq-2 > > > > Michael Glavassevich > > XML Parser Development > > IBM Toronto Lab > > E-mail: [email protected] > > E-mail: [email protected] > > > > -- > Hiranya Jayathilaka > Senior Software Engineer; > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org > E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 > Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
