Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-23 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Until we put together the official new feature page on netbeans.apache.org, this is where we're gathering all the features -- so, if anyone has had their pull requests merged, and if those pull requests result in some kind of enhancement that is going to be noticeable by a user, please consider

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-23 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Hi Laszlo, Fantastic list of items and you clearly are going to be a great release manager. One related item is that, or as a reminder, is that there'll be one or more voting candidates that you'll be putting together, which we could call Alpha, Beta, etc, but in Apache terminology will be

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-23 Thread John McDonnell
> 4. In JIRA we need a new version (or two versions for 10.0 an 11.0). > BTW I do not know if the 9.0 has been marked as closed. Do we have a > JIRA admin guy or we need to requests these modifications? I've "released 9.0" on JIRA and created a 10.0 version now. Regards John On Sun,

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-23 Thread Antonio
Hi Laszlo, For "3. We need to create a feature page" we also want to update the site-wide banners and the main page slider. Also the footer should point to NetBeans 10. I may help with what. Last time I submitted a PR against the incubator-netbeans-website that had to be slightly modified

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-22 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Hi Geertjan, First, my timezone is Pacific time. I've read through the docs. It seems I'm going to have a bit more task, than before, but I guess the first time was the hardest one. 1. After we finalize the scope, merge whatever PR is out to be merged, we need to create a release branch,

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-22 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Hi Laszlo, The things that are involved in managing the release are described in "Producing a Release Candidate" below: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+README It would be good to go through that and see where you anticipate problems and just get an

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-22 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
And what's your timezone? People working on Apache NetBeans come from all timezones, I believe. Thanks, Gj On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Awesome! > > Gj > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Laszlo Kishalmi < >

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-22 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Awesome! Gj On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > I volunteer this time. > > I hope timezone shift won't be an issue. > > > > On 09/21/2018 12:41 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > >> Some potential candidates for this role, i.e., which is pretty impressive, >> the fact that we

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-21 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
I volunteer this time. I hope timezone shift won't be an issue. On 09/21/2018 12:41 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: Some potential candidates for this role, i.e., which is pretty impressive, the fact that we have this many who could IMHO already do this from a perspective of insight, though the

Re: Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-21 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Some potential candidates for this role, i.e., which is pretty impressive, the fact that we have this many who could IMHO already do this from a perspective of insight, though the main problem in most/each cases is probably time: - Antonio Vieiro - Sven Reimers - Matthias Bläsing - Junichi

Needed: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 10

2018-09-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Hi all, Following our roadmap... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+Roadmap ...we are approaching feature freeze. A release manager is needed, Emilian did a fantastic job in the Apache NetBeans 9 release, and I am sure he can provide support and advice