> On 1. Jan 2023, at 17:43, Rony G. Flatscher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Brief info on today's work:
> 
> updating the tickets from "pending" and "accepted" with no open items to 
> "closed": did not write a utility after finding out about "bulk-edit", all 
> four categories got updated
> added missing processedTickets.rex utility to new 
> main/trunk/support/sourceForge
> updated text files in main/trunk (changing 4.2.0->5.0.0, 5.0.0->5.1.0), also 
> release-steps.txt which got updated to reflect what I was able to learn 
> today, including helpful links related to SourceForge
> updated the milestones for the four ticket categories such that the milestone 
> list gets more manageable; did not change the ooDialog-related milestones, 
> though we probably should, what do you think?
> ---
> 
> Ad Jenkins: here we probably need to help P.O. to update the scripts w.r.t. 
> the "lessons learned" in this release cycle. Please, P.O. let us know what we 
> can do to help!
> 
> 
I have made much of the work already but it is in a transitional state so 
PLEASE refrain from doing anything to the build machine & it’s scripts, I will 
let you know when I have something working.
> ---
> 
> Ad release version of ooRexx without revision information: once we can create 
> the binaries without revision information we could create new distributions 
> of 5.0.0, once the Jenkins scripts got updated to allow P.O. to do much of 
> the work without manual interventions. I would suggest to then also create 
> the portable versions for each platform (the build scripts need to get an 
> additional command added, "nmake portable" for Windows and "make portable" 
> for Unix plus uploading the two zip-archives to a new 5.0.0/portable 
> directory).
> 

Same here, I think I know what needs to be done but it takes time and I can 
only work limited time so bear with me for a couple of weeks. We waited 9 
years, a couple of days more does not harm.

> ---
> 
> In order to re-iterate the release process to check out the updated scripts 
> and steps I would like to add the little oleinfo-utiltity and dbus-support 
> with tests (both in my sandbox, need to be updated w.r.t. license etc.) and 
> the multithreaded trace feature in the next weeks to trunk and then suggest 
> to build another release cycle 5.1.0 which hopefully goes much easier than 
> this one where we had to learn all that is necessary for a proper release. A 
> pre-requisite would be to have the Jenkins build scripts updated and being 
> able to create a revision-free release version of the binaries.
> 
> 
Agreed, this will be a good test. I suggest a dummy test before that on 5.0.1 
or similar that we can delete afterwards. Maybe end of January?
> ---rony
> 
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