Re: Release Management

2006-01-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:26:35PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: I'm familiar with all of this, Leo. Heh, I know *you* are :-). I saw questions, confusion, madness and mayhem all around so I wrote some words to help make others as familiar with this as you ;) Fair enoug

Re: Release Management

2006-01-16 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:26:35PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > I'm familiar with all of this, Leo. Heh, I know *you* are :-). I saw questions, confusion, madness and mayhem all around so I wrote some words to help make others as familiar with this as you ;) > I noted to PMC that we will be

Re: Release Management

2006-01-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: Release and build processes Hi gang, since I missed a lot of the initial talks, I'm writing this seperately. There are a lot of "gotchas" related to release management. The ASF has historically been real good at it and really lousy at creating a documente

Re: Release Management

2006-01-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I'm familiar with all of this, Leo. I noted to PMC that we will be doing build snapshots. These aren't releases of any sort, but rather snapshots pre-built to make it easier for people because of the toolchain difficulties that people still have. These are clearly marked as snapshots. Than

Re: Release Management

2006-01-16 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:53:58AM -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > (sorry, no network as I type). There are incubation rules pertaining to > publishing releases and/or snapshots somewhere on > > http://incubator.apache.org/ http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases """

Release Management

2006-01-16 Thread Leo Simons
Release and build processes Hi gang, since I missed a lot of the initial talks, I'm writing this seperately. There are a lot of "gotchas" related to release management. The ASF has historically been real good at it and really lousy at creating a documented policy. Stuff like * Th