Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Message-ID: <015701c1e00d$0e43de10$270610ac@manu.com>
From: "Magesh Umasankar" <umagesh@apache.org>
To: "Ant Developers List" <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
References: <00c301c1dfe8$f5738580$270610ac@manu.com>
 <123501c1e00b$da6f64c0$1219570f@ranier>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Ant 1.5 Release Plan
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:25:18 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Loughran" <steve_l@iseran.com>


> >
> > Here is the tentative timeline that I propose:
> >
> > April 13: Complete gathering votes for move-towards-release
> >           proposal.
> >
> > If proposal passes,
> >
> > Till April 30: Complete planned activities (based on to-do list)
> >                on Ant 1.5Alpha
> > May 1st Week : Release Ant 1.5Beta1
> > Rest of May  : *Bug* fixes to Ant 1.5Alpha, if any.

Oops... that should have read Ant1.5Beta1

> > June 1st Week: Release Ant 1.5Beta2, followed by *bug* fixes, if any.
> > June 4th Week: Vote on Ant 1.5 Release.
> > July 1st Week: Release Ant 1.5
>
> And 1.5.1 in, say August.

Optimistically, there will be no 1.5.1 ;-)

>
> What you have proposed is nearly a 3 month beta cycle for ant.

Just May and June.

> That is kind of long. maybe it is a good length, maybe a bad one. Were we
to get back to
> 6 month release cycles we would be in beta release mode more than 50% of
the
> time unless we compressed the release schedule again.
>

The timeline I proposed is partially also based
on the amount of time I will be able to devote
for making the release.  I will not be able to
commit myself to a shorter timeline for this
release.

> >
> > Anyway, send in your votes for:
> >
> > 1. Proposal to move towards releasing Ant 1.5 (+1)
>
> +1
>
> > 2. Proposed timeline (+1)
>
> +1
>
> I dont have any objections to the timeline per se, but worry if it is
> setting long term expectations about beta cycle durations.

I understand your point of view, but don't you think
an extended beta is better than an extended alpha? ;-)

>
> One q: when are we feature frozen? April 30?
>

Yes, on the Ant_15_Beta1 branch.  However,
feature additions can be done to Ant_16_Alpha.
But they will not make it into the Ant 1.5 release.

There may be a few exceptions to this depending
upon the severity of any feature additions.  But
I would strongly discourage that.

> > 3. Magesh as Proposed Release Manager (+0) (+1, if no other
> >    committer volunteers).
>
> +1
>
>

Cheers,
Magesh

****************************************************
*  Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills,  *
*  and then kills you with his bills.              *
****************************************************


--
To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <mailto:ant-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org>