No long winded plan as this one should be rather trivial IMHO. 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 <javah> 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 <javah> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
