That would be great, as soon as rajith has the release page on the wiki
let's outline what we need to
do to create a release the. I am keen to get a baseline release out so
that we have all walked through the
process, and have an easy way for others to work with us. (will the good
to learn the incubator ropes also)
Carl.
Bozhong Lin wrote:
Hi All,
I am currently doing distribution/packaging setup work for CeltiXfire
project, and make it to meeting Apache release requirement. If there
is anything that I can help for Qpid in this area, I would be glad to
do it. Where can I found this kind of task?
Cheers,
Bo
Carl Trieloff wrote:
Rajith,
This looks like the place to start - are you going to put this up on
the wiki and create a page that
we can create the work into. I suggest that this be phase one, and
then sorting those into milestone
releases will be based on sign-up / discussion.
Carl.
Rajith Attapattu wrote:
Hi Folks,
I think, this is a good time for us to discuss and agree on a release
mechanism that's agreeable to the Apache way.
As per my observations from projects like Axis2, Synapse, Tuscany,
Geronimo
...etc the release process is as follows.
We start with milestone releases (M1, M2 ...Mx) until we graduate
from the
incubator.
Once graduated we can start doing a couple of 0.9x releases before
we hit
the grand 1.0 release.
Here is the typical setup for any release.
Everything is decided based on a public voting on the list. (only
binding
votes are counted)
Pre Release
-------------------
1. Create a wiki page and start capturing the feature/bug fix list
for the
release
2. We can start a discussion thread and then come to a concensus on the
final list
3. These items should be tracked by jira or other means (jira is
preffered)
4. We can start a parallel thread on the release dates.
Release Process,
-------------------------
1. We should do a code freeze and put out a release candidate (ex RC1)
2. We should allow a minimum of one week for people to test/check
out the RC
3. If there are major issues maybe do a RC2 and follow the same process
4. If a majority is happy then we can do a code freeze and cut out a
release.
For incubator projects, I believe the incubator PMC has to vote on a
release.
Cliff, Paul can you please confirm??
For the first release I will volunteer to cordinate it.
Comments are appreciated.
Regards,
Rajith
