Appeal for another volunteer to review next release

2017-06-20 Thread Peter
River people, we need one more person who's willing to review River's latest release. Any volunteers? Regards, Peter.

Re: Next release (2.2.1)?

2013-04-22 Thread Peter
; acceptable test results for the particular revision, then I'll tag the > release and generate the release packages, which we can vote on. > > I'd kind of like to complete this process by the end of the month. > > Cheers, > > Greg. > > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 15:14,

Re: Next release (2.2.1)?

2013-04-22 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 22, 2013, at 848AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > > Hi all: > > I've been testing the 2.2 branch locally in a few environments, and I > haven't seen anything that looks like anything but local configuration > issues. So I'd like to move forward with the release process (steps > will be described

Next release (2.2.1)?

2013-04-22 Thread Greg Trasuk
icular revision, then I'll tag the release and generate the release packages, which we can vote on. I'd kind of like to complete this process by the end of the month. Cheers, Greg. On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 15:14, Dennis Reedy wrote: > Hi, > > Was wondering how we are doing with get

Re: Next Release

2013-04-08 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 8, 2013, at 913AM, Mark Brouwer wrote: > On 4/7/13 4:25 AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: >> >> >> The "2.2" branch is very clean. It starts from release in 2011. Since >> then, Dennis applied RIVER-417, added poms for listing at Maven Central, >> and applied the Levels fix. I've applied RIVER-14

Re: Next Release

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Brouwer
On 4/7/13 4:25 AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: The "2.2" branch is very clean. It starts from release in 2011. Since then, Dennis applied RIVER-417, added poms for listing at Maven Central, and applied the Levels fix. I've applied RIVER-149, and that's it. Probably to Dennis. I noticed that what wa

Re: Next Release

2013-04-07 Thread Greg Trasuk
The "2.2" branch is very clean. It starts from release in 2011. Since then, Dennis applied RIVER-417, added poms for listing at Maven Central, and applied the Levels fix. I've applied RIVER-149, and that's it. A few days ago, I set out to see what else from the trunk should be rolled in for

Re: Next Release

2013-04-07 Thread Greg Trasuk
Add to the "Things we need to avoid" section: + Conflation of versioning tool issues with dev policy ;-) Greg. On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 00:08, Jeff Ramsdale wrote: > At the risk of de-railing the conversation, is there an option to move to > git for Apache Foundation projects such as River? I was

Re: Next Release

2013-04-07 Thread Dan Creswell
I'm of the opinion that this situation has occurred because of policy decisions by various developers in respect of what development and how much to do where. I don't think the current tooling has anything to do with those decisions nor do I believe git would've led to a different set of decisions.

Re: Next Release

2013-04-07 Thread Peter Firmstone
The "situation" would still have occurred, the release process was delayed by synchronization bugs, without which the release would have been much simpler with fewer changes. Of course the code is actually much better now, so it's not a bad situation, we just need to make sure testing is very

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Jeff Ramsdale
At the risk of de-railing the conversation, is there an option to move to git for Apache Foundation projects such as River? I was long a big proponent of SVN but I'm now thoroughly converted and can't help but think this situation wouldn't have occurred if git were in use. (Yes, it's possible to do

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Greg Trasuk
The "2.2" branch is very clean. It starts from release in 2011. Since then, Dennis applied RIVER-417, added poms for listing at Maven Central, and applied the Levels fix. I've applied RIVER-149, and that's it. A few days ago, I set out to see what else from the trunk should be rolled in for a

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Peter Firmstone
Just to clarify: Dennis & Greg are using the 2.2.0 branch from last release to fix Levels and release 2.2.1 trunk started failing tests after some unrelated changes exposed synchronization errors in the qa tests, since then skunk/qa-refactoring is being used to fix synchronization issues befo

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Dan Creswell
On 6 April 2013 14:44, Dennis Reedy wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2013, at 532AM, Dan Creswell wrote: > > > Right so we're into brutal tradeoffs aren't we? > > > > It's beginning to smell like none of the available branches are suitable > > for doing releases from. So we need a branch that is. > > AFAIK w

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 6, 2013, at 532AM, Dan Creswell wrote: > Right so we're into brutal tradeoffs aren't we? > > It's beginning to smell like none of the available branches are suitable > for doing releases from. So we need a branch that is. AFAIK we are going to be releasing 2.2.1 from the 2.2 branch. Once

[Fwd: Re: Next Release]

2013-04-06 Thread Peter Firmstone
I feel like strangling the phone email client about now ;) --- Begin Message --- Ignore this message, my mail client sent it days late. - Original message - > Not a good idea, the qa-refactoring branch was created recently to address the > concurrency bugs in trunk. > > - Original mess

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Dan Creswell
Right so we're into brutal tradeoffs aren't we? It's beginning to smell like none of the available branches are suitable for doing releases from. So we need a branch that is. i.e. We shouldn't just pick a branch we have, we should get one sorted and right now. What are our chances of pulling jus

Re: Next Release

2013-04-06 Thread Dan Creswell
We created a "qa-refactoring" branch for concurrency work On 3 April 2013 22:10, Peter wrote: > Not a good idea, the qa-refactoring branch was created recently to address > the concurrency bugs in trunk. > > - Original message - > > > > On Apr 2, 2013, at 750AM, Peter Firmsto

Re: Next Release

2013-04-05 Thread Peter
Not a good idea, the qa-refactoring branch was created recently to address the concurrency bugs in trunk. - Original message - > > On Apr 2, 2013, at 750AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > > > On 2/04/2013 7:51 PM, Dennis Reedy wrote: > > > On Apr 2, 2013, at 338AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > > >

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 3, 2013, at 120PM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 12:12, Dennis Reedy wrote: >> On Apr 3, 2013, at 1115AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: >> >>> >>> Did we have a branching policy discussion? >> >> I was looking here: http://river.apache.org/development-process.html (scroll >> dow

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Greg Trasuk
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 12:12, Dennis Reedy wrote: > On Apr 3, 2013, at 1115AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > > > > > Did we have a branching policy discussion? > > I was looking here: http://river.apache.org/development-process.html (scroll > down to "Branching Policy") > Ahh... That makes sense. >

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 3, 2013, at 1115AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > > Did we have a branching policy discussion? I was looking here: http://river.apache.org/development-process.html (scroll down to "Branching Policy") > I recall we decided not to > do too much in the trunk. In any case, I think your suggestio

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Greg Trasuk
Did we have a branching policy discussion? I recall we decided not to do too much in the trunk. In any case, I think your suggestion works, barring any other opinions. I was thinking of creating a "2.2.1" branch first, and then applying patches to that, but assuming there wasn't anything big do

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 3, 2013, at 1030AM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > Hi Dennis: > > I think the suggestion was that we do a release branched off the 2.2.0 > release with a bare set of patches moved over - primarily the Logging > fix and I think there was a change to one of the JRMP context classes > that I needed fo

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Greg Trasuk
Hi Dennis: I think the suggestion was that we do a release branched off the 2.2.0 release with a bare set of patches moved over - primarily the Logging fix and I think there was a change to one of the JRMP context classes that I needed for the Surrogate container. And then a release from the qa_r

Re: Next Release

2013-04-03 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Apr 2, 2013, at 750AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > On 2/04/2013 7:51 PM, Dennis Reedy wrote: >> On Apr 2, 2013, at 338AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: >> >>> The formatting didn't work out, I'll create a Jira issue to discuss. >>> >>> Patricia's done a great job detailing the dependencies and issues

Re: Next release?

2013-04-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
Dan Creswell wrote: Thanks for that, appreciate it. Couple of questions to clarify... On 1 April 2013 12:13, Peter Firmstone wrote: Shown below is both a passing test result and a failing one, logging = FINEST. Lease.FOREVER is actually set to 60,000. I take it you mean that the

Re: Next release?

2013-04-01 Thread Dan Creswell
Thanks for that, appreciate it. Couple of questions to clarify... On 1 April 2013 12:13, Peter Firmstone wrote: > Shown below is both a passing test result and a failing one, logging = > FINEST. > > Lease.FOREVER is actually set to 60,000. > > I take it you mean that the test's own notion of f

Re: Next release?

2013-04-01 Thread Dan Creswell
gt; > > Can you update the poms in skunk/qa-refactoring? I've included the > logging fix. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Peter. > > > > > > - Original message - > > > > > >> On Mar 28, 2013, at

Re: Next release?

2013-03-31 Thread Greg Trasuk
; > > Peter. > > > > - Original message - > > > >> On Mar 28, 2013, at 631PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Dennis Reedy wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>

Re: Next release?

2013-03-29 Thread Peter Firmstone
On Mar 28, 2013, at 631PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: Dennis Reedy wrote: Hi, Was wondering how we are doing with getting the next release out the door? I'd like to suggest that we move on this as soon as possible If there are issues that do come up with the release, we can alway

Re: Next release?

2013-03-28 Thread Peter
skunk/qa-refactoring? I've included the logging fix. Regards, Peter. - Original message - > > On Mar 28, 2013, at 631PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > > > Dennis Reedy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Was wondering how we are doing with getting the

Re: Next release?

2013-03-28 Thread Dennis Reedy
On Mar 28, 2013, at 631PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > Dennis Reedy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Was wondering how we are doing with getting the next release out the door? >> I'd like to suggest that we move on this as soon as possible If there are >> issues th

Re: Next release?

2013-03-28 Thread Peter Firmstone
Dennis Reedy wrote: Hi, Was wondering how we are doing with getting the next release out the door? I'd like to suggest that we move on this as soon as possible If there are issues that do come up with the release, we can always release again. Regards Dennis We can safely ignor

Re: Next release?

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Hobbs
Agreed, particularly if the JDK 7 issue has been resolved, it'd be good to get a release out there. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Dennis Reedy wrote: > Hi, > > Was wondering how we are doing with getting the next release out the door? > I'd like to suggest that we m

Next release?

2013-03-28 Thread Dennis Reedy
Hi, Was wondering how we are doing with getting the next release out the door? I'd like to suggest that we move on this as soon as possible If there are issues that do come up with the release, we can always release again. Regards Dennis

Re: Next Release (PING)

2012-11-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 01-11-12 14:35, Gerard Fulton wrote: Sounds like the tests might need to be refactored. Indeed. Or a revert of the patches causing the tests to fail. Gr. Simon Er, no, the URI patches aren't causing the tests to fail, the tests are configured with unsupported

Re: Next Release (PING)

2012-11-01 Thread Simon IJskes - QCG
On 01-11-12 14:35, Gerard Fulton wrote: Sounds like the tests might need to be refactored. Indeed. Or a revert of the patches causing the tests to fail. Gr. Simon

Re: Next Release (PING)

2012-11-01 Thread Gerard Fulton
Sounds like the tests might need to be refactored. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > I've noticed some new classes in the net.jini namespace, we need to move > them to org.apache.river prior to release please, unless there is a good > reason they should be there. > > Regard

Re: Next Release (PING)

2012-11-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
I've noticed some new classes in the net.jini namespace, we need to move them to org.apache.river prior to release please, unless there is a good reason they should be there. Regards, Peter. Peter Firmstone wrote: Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:47, Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28

Re: Next Release (PING)

2012-11-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:47, Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:45, Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:43, Tom Hobbs wrote: Can someone refresh my memory, please? I recall a few months ago we were talking about gearing up for a release. Is there any reason why we

Re: Next Release (PING)

2012-10-31 Thread Simon IJskes - QCG
On 28-10-12 15:47, Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:45, Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:43, Tom Hobbs wrote: Can someone refresh my memory, please? I recall a few months ago we were talking about gearing up for a release. Is there any reason why we can't cut one now-ish? no

Re: Next Release

2012-10-28 Thread Simon IJskes - QCG
On 28-10-12 15:45, Simon IJskes - QCG wrote: On 28-10-12 15:43, Tom Hobbs wrote: Can someone refresh my memory, please? I recall a few months ago we were talking about gearing up for a release. Is there any reason why we can't cut one now-ish? none. go for it! Although, what do we do with

Re: Next Release

2012-10-28 Thread Simon IJskes - QCG
On 28-10-12 15:43, Tom Hobbs wrote: Can someone refresh my memory, please? I recall a few months ago we were talking about gearing up for a release. Is there any reason why we can't cut one now-ish? none. go for it! -- QCG, Software voor het MKB, 071-5890970, http://www.qcg.nl Quality Cons

Next Release

2012-10-28 Thread Tom Hobbs
Can someone refresh my memory, please? I recall a few months ago we were talking about gearing up for a release. Is there any reason why we can't cut one now-ish? Cheers, Tom

Re: Next Release

2012-03-16 Thread Peter Firmstone
Tom Hobbs wrote: I'm not going to be able to finish my stuff and test it well enough to get it into the next release. Peter; are you happy with your commits and merging? Almost, I've got to remove some things that are preventing compillation on Java 7. Are we ready to start cut

Next Release

2012-03-14 Thread Tom Hobbs
I'm not going to be able to finish my stuff and test it well enough to get it into the next release. Peter; are you happy with your commits and merging? Are we ready to start cutting a new release yet? Does anyone else have any additional code etc they want rolled into the next release? C

Re: Next Release

2011-04-10 Thread Tom Hobbs
No, that's great. Let's wait on your test for that and then put it to the vote. Is anyone else working on anything specific for this release? On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I've reviewed the proposed patch for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-395, and I

Re: Next Release

2011-04-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I've reviewed the proposed patch for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-395, and I think it should be incorporated in the release. I'm working on a QA test for it, but could check it in untested if you like. Patricia On 4/10/2011 1:09 PM, Tom Hobbs wrote: Hi guys, So including the

Next Release

2011-04-10 Thread Tom Hobbs
Hi guys, So including the SPARC issue, are we ready to cut and vote on a new release? Personally, I think it might be worth starting the vote now anyway. If people don't want to release because of the SPARC thing or whatever other reason they can always vote "-1"... Peter and Sim, am I right in

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
It's worth noting that if a customer wants to deploy River on sparc, it will be relatively easy for them to do so, they'll be able to take up the baton, build and run the tests. Maintaining a sparc development computer takes time and resources, you need a license and support contract for Solar

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
servers for FPS, Cray Research, and Sun Microsystems. Maybe we'll find the SPARC failure quickly, and it will have a simple fix. In that case, I'm sure we should include the fix in the next release. Suppose it does not work out that way. Then we face a trade-off. How long should we

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
Perhaps you might be interested in helping us fix some bugs or checking the release documentation? We're all just volunteers here, I've made attempts to identify the source of the bug and lack the time needed to figure it out. Patricia has offered to help. Feel free to jump in and get your ha

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Dan Creswell
Not really the constructive dialog I was after... On 1 April 2011 20:27, Jason Pratt wrote: > i am stating that the first "graduated" release should work for everyone > period. after that if you want to release with known bugs and reduce/not > Uh huh - what I can't understand is your logic for

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Jason Pratt
i am stating that the first "graduated" release should work for everyone period. after that if you want to release with known bugs and reduce/not support sparc or whatever other platform you in your infinite wisdom deem irrelevant , great. river should have one release it can point at for anyone wa

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
Dan Creswell wrote: I think there are some other things we might consider: (1) Do the tests in question always fail and only on SPARC? Yes and only on the Java 6 JVM. The way security policy's are loaded changed in Java 6. In reality a SecurityManager must be loaded at startup with a po

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Dan Creswell
I think there are some other things we might consider: (1) Do the tests in question always fail and only on SPARC? (2) Do the tests in question contain any SPARC specific code? (3) Does the code being tested contain any SPARC specific code? (4) How many cores are available on the SPARC's in que

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
What is the definition of "new"? Remember we added a lot of QA tests that were not being run previously, so for most QA tests we do not know whether they would have passed on an earlier release. If we can define "new" as being since some specific subversion check-out, we can build that on a SP

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Tom Hobbs
bit stricter: does anyone care enough to provide a dev env *and* fix bugs :) Fwiw, +1 on releasing with a known bug... Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Patricia Shanahan" To: "dev@river.apache.org" Subject: Remaining Work For Next Release Date: Fri, Apr 1, 20

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread De Groot, Cees
I would pose it even a bit stricter: does anyone care enough to provide a dev env *and* fix bugs :) Fwiw, +1 on releasing with a known bug... Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Patricia Shanahan" To: "dev@river.apache.org" Subject: Remaining Work For Ne

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Dan Creswell
Why should it be valid for everyone? So far the conversation has mostly amounted to "save the SPARC user" at any cost and that cost includes "penalise all other users". Is that latter cost something we think we should be asserting? And for how long? Further, if those using SPARC can't lend us a

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Jason Pratt
sparc was a key architecture when jini was being promoted, maybe not so much now. however, at least for a graduation release it should be valid for everyone sparc included. afterwards if justified it can be phased out. antagonism aside, for its first release let give the masses something that work

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-04-01 Thread Tom Hobbs
Firstly, I think if this is a new bug then we shouldn't do a release. If it's a newly discovered bug or a well known one then I think that it's probably okay to. I know of at least one corporate user who is still on Jini 2.1 and who I'm encouraging to move to River once the build is made modular

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-31 Thread Greg Trasuk
> Here's a key question for the future. Are there users that need River on > SPARC? Do we go on supporting it? Does anyone care enough to make a > SPARC development environment available? > > Patricia I've just acquired a pair of Sun Ultra 5 workstations, but haven't had a chance to set them up

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/31/2011 5:41 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Jason Pratt wrote: please don't release anything with failures. i've been a big fan/user of jini since it was released. now that it is alive again via river, a good release history will be key to success/survival Ass

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-31 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Jason Pratt wrote: > please don't release anything with failures. i've been a big fan/user of > jini since it was released. now that it is alive again via river, a good > release history will be key to success/survival Assume for a second that the failure is relat

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Pratt
please don't release anything with failures. i've been a big fan/user of jini since it was released. now that it is alive again via river, a good release history will be key to success/survival jason On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Tom Hobbs wrote: > Is that a newly introduced failure? I'm wo

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-29 Thread Tom Hobbs
Is that a newly introduced failure? I'm wondering if we can do a release anyway. I vaguely recall Peter and Sim talking about the steps required to do a release a while back. Sim, did yoh get anywhere with it?

Re: Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
We have a SPARC-only QA failure that I'm willing to take a look at if Peter sets up an account for me. Otherwise, I'm looking ahead to work on fault tolerance. Patricia On 3/29/2011 2:25 PM, Tom Hobbs wrote: Hi guys, Everything's been a bit quiet recently. I was just wonder what (if anythi

Remaining Work For Next Release

2011-03-29 Thread Tom Hobbs
Hi guys, Everything's been a bit quiet recently. I was just wonder what (if anything) is left to do for our first post-graduation release. Cheers, Tom