Hi, Being a Release Manager seems like a good way for me to contribute back to the WiX project, so I'd be more than happy to accept the task.
Having a "quality bar" for the most recent build on SourceForge sounds like a good idea, just as publishing weekly builds to the Wix Website. For archiving purposes, once a stable build is released, you could add the previous "intermediate" builds to the SourceForge release page as well for archiving purposes and resolving the web space problem on the Wix Website. That means the "intermediate" builds never show up as the latest and greatest build, but are archived on the SourceFourge page anyway (possible with a "unstable" tag). Just a tought. I'm a little bit in the dark as what a "stable" build would be, but I assume that would be any build that gets used by a "reasonable amount" of people without "considerable regressions"... That seems like very much a community thing, but it would be great to think about how we exactly define such builds. Frederik. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: zondag 16 april 2006 2:31 > To: Frederik Carlier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WiX-devs] Automated SourceForge release process > > I've been thinking about this for a while as people discussed the issues > on > the mailing lists. > > Here are my opinions: > > 1. I think that http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases should be the place > where we prop releases every time there is a "weekly" build of the WiX > toolset. This should happen pretty much every Wednesday morning after a > long Tuesday night of programming and integration by those of us in 98052. > > 2. I think the File Releases Page on Source Forge > (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970) should be > reserved for builds that are verified by the community (in some way) to be > "good". > > 3. We should find someone (not me, I'm already buried) to be the WiX > Toolset Release Manager. That person would be responsible for gathering > the > feedback from the community to decide when to promote a weekly build to > the > Releases page. > > 4. I would also like to nominate for Frederik Carlier for the role of > Release Manager. > > > Note, that we only have so much disk space available for the weekly > releases > share. It will be necessary to promote a build to the Releases Page at > least once every other month. > > What do people think? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
