Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 89882 invoked by uid 500); 6 Aug 2003 17:42:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 89866 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2003 17:41:59 -0000 Received: from palrel10.hp.com (156.153.255.245) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Aug 2003 17:41:59 -0000 Received: from klaatu.cv.hp.com (smtp2.cv.hp.com [15.0.200.102]) by palrel10.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DE21C028C8 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iseran.com (ranier.cv.hp.com [15.87.25.18]) by klaatu.cv.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342D02BC37 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F313DC7.2080504@iseran.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:41:27 -0700 From: Steve Loughran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: [VOTE] Ant 1.5.4 Release Plan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Stefan Bodewig wrote: > No long winded plan as this one should be rather trivial IMHO. +1 > > The plan: > > * We don't commit anything to the 1.5 branch anymore (we don't so so > anyway). > > * On Monday August 11th during the morning (GMT) the release manager > syncs the website changes from the HEAD branch to the 1.5 branch and > creates a 1.5.4 release from it. Following the Release guidelines in > our CVS module. > > * The release will be put into our distribution directory and the > release manager will call for a PMC vote on it. > > * If the vote passes, the release will be announced to the public, > otherwise the files will be removed from the distribution area > again. > > Release Manager: > > I volunteer to take the role of the release manager, although I'll > probably need some help to get all optional dependencies together. > > Some notes: > > The only changes over 1.5.3 will be the changes to and the VAJ > tasks. Therefore I plan to explicitly state in the release notes as > well as the announcements that there is no reason to upgrade from > 1.5.3 unless you use on JDK 1.4.2 or VAJ. > > The announcement will also once again state that this is the last > (planned) Ant release that will run on a 1.1 Java VM. > > All changes are based on patches from people who had problems with the > two areas originally - and have been verified to work by multiple > people. Therefore I don't think we'll need a release candidate or > even beta build. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org