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From: "Jeff Genender" <jgenender@savoirtech.com>
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Subject: RE: Attacking M4
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:42:06 -0600
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Mulder [mailto:ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:59 PM
> To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Attacking M4
> 
> 	WRT Tomcat, I think we should just comment out that 
> block from the installer config files in M4.  The procedure 
> for getting it running is way too arcane, and we have 
> something much better in place in HEAD already.  
> Also, I'd like to see Tomcat get a bit more testing before 
> making noise about it in a release.
> 

+1 for both testing and waiting for M5 for the "good stuff".  Perhaps this
is a great time for me to bug the community to say..."Please test your
applications on Tomcat" ;-)

> 	I can certainly take the todo for the release notes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Aaron
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, David Blevins wrote:
> > Alright, here is the deal on M4.  We have OSCON coming up 
> and from my 
> > experience, if we don't get M4 out the door this week, then 
> we won't 
> > see it till the week after OSCON.  I actually tried to cut 
> M3 at OSCON 
> > last year and we all know how that went.
> > 
> > If we don't get M4 out the door this week, our hopes of 
> having M5 by 
> > the 15th are lost.  Assuming we don't want this to happen, 
> here is my 
> > attack plan:
> > 
> > =ATTACK PLAN==========
> > 
> > LAST ISSUES
> > 
> >    - Undeployment issue (GERONIMO-812, David Jencks)
> >    - Snapshots (Javamail & Axis=>Dims, jUDDI & Scout=>Geir, 
> > ServiceMix=>Hiram, tmpOrb=>Dain)
> >    - Web Services startup issue (GERONIMO-785, David Blevins)
> >    - Corba interop problem (GERONIMO-813, Dain Sundstrom)
> >    - Izpack/Tomcat issue (GERONIMO-811, Unassigned)
> >    - Unknown CTS issues (need to clear up GERONIMO-812 to run it
> > completely)
> > 
> > No sitting on tasks, if you are not going to do it, mark it 
> unassigned.
> > 
> > Issue GERONIMO-811 is unassigned.  Can someone either remove the 
> > Tomcat option from the IzPack installer or add a the link 
> to the wiki?
> > 
> > It seems GERONIMO-809 is actually completed, is that right?
> > 
> > THE FINAL STUFF
> > 
> > We have to run the TCK on the final binary, which means we need to 
> > allow for a couple days of just testing the actual geronimo-1.0- 
> > M4.zip that people will download.  To even get that far, we need to:
> > 
> >    1. [notes] Create release notes for M4 and check them 
> into the QA 
> > branch
> >    2. [svn] Close the QA branch and copy it to tags/v1_0_M4
> >    3. [dist] Cut and sign the binary and source distributions
> > 
> > We are going to need to be done with the remaining JIRA 
> items above by 
> > like Wednesday (best) or Thursday morning in order to do the above 
> > tasks.
> > 
> > I am willing to take care of the svn and dist work. 
> Side-note: I have 
> > to go to a wedding on Friday, so I personally would like to 
> shoot for 
> > Wednesday as Thursday night is too late for me.
> > 
> > Aaron, you willing to do the nice release notes like you did for M3?
> > 
> > ====================
> > 
> > Sound good to everyone?  Going to assume a lazy consensus otherwise.
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > 
>