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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-3005:
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Right, i think a lot of this is old news, its not perfect but we are closer.
As far as what Grant mentioned in the original thread: I think we've tried to
automate this as much
as possible in the smokeTestRelease.py: it takes the actual generated artifacts
and does a ton
of tests on them.
As i mentioned in the original thread, the worst part of the release process
before was that the code
wasn't releasable until someone cleaned it up: I think this is significantly
better. We have a lot
more checks in the build system: nitpicking over javadocs, 3rd party
dependencies, license headers,
etc, etc. And we run the smokeTestRelease.py as a weekly hudson job to ensure
things like packaging
are not broken.
In my opinion we should continue down this path, trying to ensure that our code
is always releasable
at any time from this kind of perspective, rather than adding manual steps.
I think the right way to do this is just like how we handle bugs in our code.
If a problem crops up
in e.g. packaging, don't just fix it, but also add a 'test' (code to
smokeTestRelease or whatever) so
that jenkins is continuously looking for it.
In my opinion most of the previous problems were all due to:
* not having tests (in this sense 'test' means testing packaging, licensing,
etc)
* not having automated builds running those tests.
> Define Test Plan for 4.0
> ------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-3005
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3005
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Test
> Affects Versions: 4.0-ALPHA
> Reporter: Grant Ingersoll
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.1
>
>
> Before we can release, we need a test plan that defines what a successful
> release candidate must do to be accepted.
> Test plan should be written at http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/TestPlans
> See
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/14bd01e519f39aff/brainstorming_on_improving_the_release_process
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