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From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 03:47:10 -0700
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Thanks. I have a spare computer I'll try to convert to Ubuntu. I think 
that will be cleaner than using a VM on Windows 8.1.

On 8/10/2015 1:04 AM, Peter wrote:
> Pat,
>
> I don't have much time, but I'll assist you where I can.
>
> First things first, you'll need a Unix environment.
>
> I'd copy Dennis newly created branch to a 3.0 release branch, then run
> the qa test suite and jtreg test suite.
>
> ant all.build
> ant qa.run
> cd ./qa
> ant jtreg
> cd ../
> ant release
>
> To answer Greg's question:
>
>     The custard-apple library is available on Sourceforge, it's a
>     Collections wrapper library that enables weak, soft and strong
>     reference combinations in any java Collection implementation.  This
>     library is required.  high-scale-lib is also required.
>
>     Test code in the jtreg test suite depends on the bouncy castle
>     library to provide Certificate Authority functionality to sign
>     certificates.  All certificates in other branches have expired, I'm
>     sure there are other people on the dev list would have experienced
>     and be aware of these test failures, these tests pass on this
>     suite.  This library isn't required by down stream developers.
>
>     dnsjava is used in the qa test suite, it isn't required by down
>     stream developers.
>
>     animal sniffer was again used for testing api changes and isn't
>     required for down stream development.
>
>     Velocity was used by Sim and at least one other developer for
>     configuration purposes, this library is optional.
>
>     Libraries required by test suites should stay for testing purposes
>     but aren't required by release artifacts.
>
>
> Regaring the current trunk, there are contributions made by Sim (network
> and other improvements), after the stable branch point (chosen for
> qa-refactor) that need to be integrated back at some point.  The test
> failures after the trunk => qa-refactor branch point are latent
> concurrency bugs, they are not directly related to Sim's code.
>
> This should help you get started...
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>
> On 10/08/2015 2:00 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>> In that case, I'll take on the actual release manager role, and get
>> going on dealing with the dependency issue.
>>
>> On 8/9/2015 8:38 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote:
>>> Pat:
>>>
>>> I can provide support and information for you.  But I do think we
>>> need to first sort out the dependencies question I pointed out earlier.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Greg Trasuk
>>>
>>>> On Aug 9, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am going to include the lack of a release manager for 3.0 in the
>>>> board report, and assign myself an action item to fix it.
>>>>
>>>> At this point I think my best bet is to appeal on the
>>>> dev@community.apache.org mailing list for a mentor who is familiar
>>>> with the release process to guide me through the steps. However, I
>>>> am very open to alternative suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/8/2015 8:22 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>>>> Peter? Anyone?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have time, but not the knowledge. I would be willing to be release
>>>>> manager provided at least one person who knows how it is done will
>>>>> provide a lot of step-by-step guidance.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/8/2015 7:21 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote:
>>>>>> Not really I am afraid.  I am quite heavily committed on several
>>>>>> projects
>>>>>> right now.  I have done applications development with river, but I
>>>>>> am not
>>>>>> familiar with the historical river project structure in any depth and
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> never done development on river itself. And I have never participated
>>>>>> in an
>>>>>> Apache project release.  I am just not a good candidate for this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bryan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Saturday, August 8, 2015, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bryan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you able and willing to act as release manager for 3.0?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/6/2015 11:56 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just release to encourage people to use it. +1 on release.for me.
>>>>>>>> On Aug 6, 2015 2:55 PM, "Patricia Shanahan" <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Would it be useful to tag it as a 3.0 beta release initially, or
>>>>>>>> just go
>>>>>>>>> to 3.0 and add point releases as needed?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I will vote in favor of releasing it either way.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 8/6/2015 9:55 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Or just release it.  If problems emerge, people can report them
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> they
>>>>>>>>>> can get fixed.  There is a known reliable release now.  Let the
>>>>>>>>>> community
>>>>>>>>>> vote by migrating their code.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Bryan
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> As far as I can tell, the main remaining release blocker it
>>>>>>>>>> getting more
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> people to test in more environments. Perhaps we should put
>>>>>>>>>>> out an
>>>>>>>>>>> appeal
>>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>>> user@river.apache.org?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/6/2015 9:33 AM, Bryan Thompson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe it would be good to say a few words about the release
>>>>>>>>>>> goals
>>>>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 3.0?
>>>>>>>>>>>> I.e., 3.0 provides a deep refactoring that address performance,
>>>>>>>>>>>> concurrency
>>>>>>>>>>>> and scaling issues.  Significant progress has been made
>>>>>>>>>>>> towards the
>>>>>>>>>>>> 3.0
>>>>>>>>>>>> release target.  X new tests have been developed for this
>>>>>>>>>>>> release.
>>>>>>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>>>>>>> remaining blockers for a release are ....
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
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