On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Nicolas Lalevée < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le mardi 20 mai 2008, Gilles Scokart a écrit : > > I didn't use IvyDE, but I'm +1 for an alpha or beta release seeing > > that recent bug reports starts to be reported against "The latest > > build (May 16 from www.hibnet.org)" [1] or from xoocode [2]. > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE-93 > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE-90 > > > > 2008/5/19 Maarten Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > +1 for an IvyDE release. > > > I'd prefer a beta release instead of an alpha release though... > > > > > As there is no objection since last week, let's go for an IvyDE release ! > > As suggested by Xavier, I vonlonteer to be the release manager. Great! > > > Marteen raised a question about the name of the release. For me, "alpha" > means "release that developers know it to be unstable" and "beta" is > for "developers think it has minor bugs but is stable, then let's the users > test it". > For me it is unstable, mainly due to IVYDE-82 and currently I saw that > IVYDE-54 can freaks out Eclipse. > So I vote for "alpha". alpha is fine for me. > > > Then about the release, in order to follow the Apache guidelines, some work > need to be done about packaging the source of IvyDE. I will look about how > the sources are usually packaged for the Eclipse plugins. We should > probably > have different kind of packaging: the source got from an updatesite, and > the > full sources which also contains the build system. > > We will also probably need an Apache Ivy updatsite. For the few tests I > have > done with my own one, it is not working properly, updates are not > detected... > Some investigation will be needed here too. > > About the documentation, I have finished migrating the IvyDE website, so > now > there is the "history" category, like the Ivy site. I think we should > publish > it as soon as we get an IvyDE release adopted. WDYT ? Agreed. Good job! > > > And the documentation in the binary distribution. Could a simple link to > the > website be enought ? Or should we push the html doc into the zip ? Since we have the history on the website, I think a link is enough. > > > In the Apache doc, I can read: > > If svn:externals is used, check carefully that a tag is referenced. This > ensure that all the source for the release is fixed. If the target of a > svn:externals changes then the release will no longer be complete > reproducible. > So shouldn't xooki be released somehow ? You're right, the version of xooki we use should be tagged. Using the date as tag seems good enough for me. > > Does anybody see any other points that need to be addressed before starting > to > build a release ? About the update site, we need to know where we will put it. Apache Directory Studio use their own site for that [1], maybe we can do the same? Xavier [1] http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/ > > > Nicolas > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> > > > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:19:40 PM > > > Subject: Re: Releasing IvyDE > > > > > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Nicolas Lalevée > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Recently there were some users complaining that there is no release of > > >> IvyDE > > >> compatible with Ivy 2. [1] [2] > > >> > > >> I know that IvyDE is not stable. See some major issues in Jira. For > some > > >> people it is even getting less stable: [3] > > >> > > >> But then I wonder if we could still do an alpha release, just to get > > >> people less annoyed by the 1.2 version which has some terrible issues > > >> [2], and probably more bug report, and hopefully more people > interested > > >> in contributing. > > >> > > >> WDYT ? > > > > > > I'm a strong +1 to get an alpha release of IvyDE out. I don't have > much > > > time currently though, but according to the high quality of the job > > > you've done so far on IvyDE and its build system, I'm confident you are > > > able to be the release manager for this version if you want. > > > > > > Xavier > > > > > >> Nicolas > > >> > > >> [1] > > >> > > >> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-ivy-user/200805.mbox/%3cB03 > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [2] > > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE-65 > > >> [3] > > >> > > >> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-ivy-user/200805.mbox/%3cDA8 > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant > > > http://xhab.blogspot.com/ > > > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ > > > http://www.xoocode.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Nicolas LALEVÉE > ANYWARE TECHNOLOGIES > Tel : +33 (0)5 61 00 52 90 > Fax : +33 (0)5 61 00 51 46 > http://www.anyware-tech.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
