Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-19 Thread David Crossley
Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > >There are a stack of scribbled notes on my printout > >of the "How_to_release" doc. I will try to incorporate > >those tomorrow while it is still fresh. Okay i have those integrated now. This document has evolved over every release of Forrest. I h

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-18 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: Would someone please do the Freshmeat update and the Wikipedia update. See the links at the end of the section: http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#cleanup I can't do the freshmeat update, Jeff Turner and Cheche are listed at admins, I thought

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-18 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: As you saw, the release announcement is now done. Would someone please do the Freshmeat update and the Wikipedia update. See the links at the end of the section: http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#cleanup I'm on it. There are a stack of scr

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-18 Thread David Crossley
As you saw, the release announcement is now done. Would someone please do the Freshmeat update and the Wikipedia update. See the links at the end of the section: http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#cleanup I will try the xml.apache.org site update tomorrow. There are

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-18 Thread David Crossley
I did the Jira administration noted in http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#cleanup -David

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-18 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > The release packages are currently being uploaded to > > the mirrors. When a good proportion of them have received > > it, i will do the announcement. > > http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#UploadAndAnnounce > > A

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-18 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > > The release packages are currently being uploaded to > the mirrors. When a good proportion of them have received > it, i will do the announcement. > http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#UploadAndAnnounce About a third of the mirrors have recei

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-17 Thread David Crossley
The tags have been created and the release branch is ready. I will explain that in a separate message. The docs_0_90 are ready for the next phase of development. I will explain that in a separate message. The code freeze has ended. However please don't publish the website yet. I will do that lat

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-17 Thread David Crossley
The vote was successful, so i will start to work through the steps at http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#FinalRel -David

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-16 Thread David Crossley
Thorsten Scherler wrote: > Ross Gardler wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > David Crossley wrote: > > >> We decided that we do need a new release candidate RC2. > > >> That is currently being built and uploaded. There will > > >> be a new Vote thread soon. > > > > > > The new Vote request went

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-16 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 09:22 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > >> We decided that we do need a new release candidate RC2. > >> That is currently being built and uploaded. There will > >> be a new Vote thread soon. > > > > The new Vote request went out ye

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-16 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: David Crossley wrote: We decided that we do need a new release candidate RC2. That is currently being built and uploaded. There will be a new Vote thread soon. The new Vote request went out yesterday. See the separate thead. Reminder that there are about 17 hours remaini

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-15 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > > We decided that we do need a new release candidate RC2. > That is currently being built and uploaded. There will > be a new Vote thread soon. The new Vote request went out yesterday. See the separate thead. Reminder that there are about 17 hours remaining. Then, if succ

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-14 Thread David Crossley
We decided that we do need a new release candidate RC2. That is currently being built and uploaded. There will be a new Vote thread soon. -David

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-13 Thread Ross Gardler
Cyriaque Dupoirieux wrote: For my personal site, the Odt plugin is not found (need to be deployed ?) Whiteboard plugins have *not* been deployed, unless someone asks for them. In your case you can do it yourself ;-) Ross

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-13 Thread Cyriaque Dupoirieux
David Crossley a écrit : Keeping this "progress" thread happening ... We fixed some quite serious problems with the deployment of plugins. Thanks to those who helped with the testing and fixing. So far we do not need another release candidate. People are still encouraged to test on sites that

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-13 Thread David Crossley
Keeping this "progress" thread happening ... We fixed some quite serious problems with the deployment of plugins. Thanks to those who helped with the testing and fixing. So far we do not need another release candidate. People are still encouraged to test on sites that have more complex needs. I

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-12 Thread David Crossley
Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >So it is vital that someone using that operating system > >reports success with RC1 release candidate package. > > Don't worry David, I'm on it, but I'm taking my time to make sure it > gets my full focus. Don't expect a report from me until towards

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-12 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: So it is vital that someone using that operating system reports success with RC1 release candidate package. Don't worry David, I'm on it, but I'm taking my time to make sure it gets my full focus. Don't expect a report from me until towards the end of the test cycle as I

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-11 Thread David Crossley
Some notes about the progress with the release. The call for testing and subsequent voting http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/24024 Less than five days remain. We have one comment that it works. Thanks Paul. This is the first release where we have not built the Windows

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: David Crossley wrote: However it fails on its site-author. I think that is it because the "gloaary" plugin need to be deployed to the site from whiteboard. Going to do that now, then upload the packages to people.apache.org Hmmm, i cannot get the whiteboard "glossary" plu

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > > However it fails on its site-author. I think that > is it because the "gloaary" plugin need to be > deployed to the site from whiteboard. Going to do > that now, then upload the packages to people.apache.org Hmmm, i cannot get the whiteboard "glossary" plugin to deploy.

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread David Crossley
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:46:25PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > > Now at step #12 > http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#BuildDist > > The end is in sight. Why did i say that !!! Six hours later i have a working release candidate package. However it fails on its si

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread David Crossley
Gav wrote: > From: David Crossley > > > > Now on to the rest of the section: > > "Building the release candidate packages". > > > > -David > > Thanks for these update notes, I'm trying to follow your progress > and these help a lot. :-) Now at step #12 http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/

RE: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread Gav....
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 2:17 PM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: the progress with the release > > Phew. Done the "FOR-644 code-style cleanup for xml files" > Amazi

RE: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread Gav....
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 5:29 PM > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: Re: the progress with the release > > David Crossley wrote: > > > > Woops, a bit of delay wit

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > > Woops, a bit of delay with more missing steps. Getting the > "Versioned docs" tab working is ticky. I need to look > at the 0.7 release setup and see how we did it. That helped. Easy really. Now on to the rest of the section: "Building the release candidate packages".

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > If anyone is trying to follow along, i am up to the > early phases of > http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#adjustDocs > > Already found three extra steps. Scribbling on the > doc for next time. Woops, a bit of delay with more missing steps. Ge

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-10 Thread David Crossley
If anyone is trying to follow along, i am up to the early phases of http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#adjustDocs Already found three extra steps. Scribbling on the doc for next time. -David

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-09 Thread David Crossley
Phew. Done the "FOR-644 code-style cleanup for xml files" Amazing how many xml files that we have. I did it section by section and tested on the way, e.g. doing main/webapp/resources/stylesheets then rebuilding our website, then checking with diff to see if there were any differences. Similarly wi

Re: the progress with the release

2007-04-09 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: About 13 hours to go until the announcement of the code-freeze. We are up to the section "Preparing the code base" http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#PrepCodeBase Anyone can help with this phase. Whatever is still left to do after our night, i

the progress with the release

2007-04-09 Thread David Crossley
About 13 hours to go until the announcement of the code-freeze. We are up to the section "Preparing the code base" http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#PrepCodeBase Anyone can help with this phase. Whatever is still left to do after our night, i will try to pick up tom