Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-harmony-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 78457 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2010 09:38:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 30 Nov 2010 09:38:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 69593 invoked by uid 500); 30 Nov 2010 09:38:39 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-harmony-dev-archive@harmony.apache.org Received: (qmail 69248 invoked by uid 500); 30 Nov 2010 09:38:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@harmony.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@harmony.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@harmony.apache.org Received: (qmail 69239 invoked by uid 99); 30 Nov 2010 09:38:35 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:35 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RFC_ABUSE_POST,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: 194.196.100.166 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of mark.hindess@googlemail.com) Received: from [194.196.100.166] (HELO mtagate6.uk.ibm.com) (194.196.100.166) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:25 +0000 Received: from d06nrmr1307.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06nrmr1307.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.38.129]) by mtagate6.uk.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id oAU9c5hx000391 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:05 GMT Received: from d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.248]) by d06nrmr1307.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id oAU9c3hx3633402 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:03 GMT Received: from d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id oAU9c41B004168 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:38:04 -0700 Received: from anaheim.local (dhcp-9-20-191-78.hursley.ibm.com [9.20.191.78]) by d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id oAU9c4KC004165 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:38:04 -0700 Message-Id: <201011300938.oAU9c4KC004165@d06av07.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 (debian 1:2.7.2-18) with nmh-1.3 In-reply-to: References: <201011091818.oA9IIkgm002702@d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <201011291408.oATE8MNx011107@d06av04.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> Comments: In-reply-to Ray Chen message dated "Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:59:15 +0800." From: Mark Hindess To: dev@harmony.apache.org Subject: Re: Next milestones: 5.0M16 and 6.0M4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:04 +0000 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org In message , Ray Chen writes: > > Hi Mark, > Does release manager must be a PMC? No. See: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#release_manager > If not, maybe I can take the responsibility. That would be great. > However, I don't know much about how to do it, I think we need some > transferring work. Ask here if you have questions. My activity as release manager for previous releases was something like ... Suggest dates, announce freezes, encourage people to do testing and move things along a bit when people send test results, work to resolve release critical issues, produce signed source artifacts, start a vote, conclude the vote and produce signed binaries. The scripts I use to create linux source and binary artifacts are in svn at: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/harmony/standard/tools/release I do the equivalent manual process for both windows platforms. The last crucial part is populating the /dist/ tree for mirroring. You need to be careful doing this so as to avoid messing up lots of mirrors. I tend to make the tree elsewhere then check that it matches the size/shape of the previous release tree before using rsync to put it in to /dist/. Just ask if you have question about any of the process. Regards, Mark.