On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 1:58 PM Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 5:35 PM Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 08:43:59AM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > There are quite a number of improvements waiting to be released. Can we > > > muster the energy to do a new release? > > > > > > In trunk there are a lot of changes that warrant a 1.15, but before > doing > > > that I think we should also go back to the discussion of changing the / > > > adding a checksum algorithm in the WC. That deserves a separate thread > and > > > I'm half way through summarising the previous discussions so I'd like > to > > > hold back 1.15 for the moment. > > > > > > Still in 1.14 there have been a number of bugfixes that might be good > to > > > get released. Maybe doing 1.14.3 first could set us up to do 1.15 a > little > > > later? > > > > The first problem to solve before the ball starts rolling would be > > finding a release manager. I don't have enough spare time to play RM > > this time around but I would support the RM as far as my time allows for. > > > > Doing 1.14.3 first sounds like a good plan. This would help potential > > new releases managers to get bootstrapped into the process. A major > > release tends to involve a little bit more effort because some new > problems > > may only show up on specific operating system platforms during -rc > testing. > > +1 > > -- > Johan Hi all, I agree that a 1.14.3 release makes sense for a first-time RM, to be followed by a 1.15.0 at a later stage. (Also, there are some unresolved issues regarding 1.15.0, such as the above-mentioned question of checksum algorithms, that may require more development, but 1.14.3 should be much more straightforward.) At this moment I cannot promise to volunteer for this cycle but I will try to do so. Before I do, I need to get my system bootstrapped properly. I can build SVN and run most of the testsuite, but one pesky longstanding issue I have had is with the JavaHL bindings. That will require a separate thread and I'll describe the issues there. I'll check my notes to see what else might be a showstopper on my end. If I can get set up and solve the problems I've encountered previously in a reasonable time frame (and everyone's help is appreciated of course) I'll volunteer. Cheers, Nathan
