[cle-release-team] 2.8.2 release done - need input

[David Horwitz]

I'm going to bring the tag up on qa1-za.

I hope to get it done before I leave this eve for the US but will ping 
the list as soon as its up.

D

On 06/04/2012 09:35 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The 2.8.2 release is done. This took a while because I had to squeeze 
> it in around other work and had a few hiccups along the way which 
> slowed me down but were eventually resolved.
>
> Anyway, I documented the entire process here:
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/~steve.swinsburg/sakai-2.8.2+release 
> <https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/%7Esteve.swinsburg/sakai-2.8.2+release>
>
> I abandoned the scripts that were used previously as they looked like 
> they needed editing, and I didn't want to have to do that when I could 
> just run some svn cp commands and edit some files, which were required 
> to be done in the scripted process anyway.
>
> Total time spent on this is about 4-5 days. I could run through it 
> again in 1.5-2 days I reckon. The thing that takes the longest is 
> releasing the indies, some/most take over an hour to release and there 
> are 22 of them. I was able to run about 4 concurrently.
>
> A build on a clean repo is successful.
>
> I am in the process of generating the download artifacts 
> (bin/demo/src) and uploading them. Again I am running that manually 
> which seems to be working fine. Fingers crossed.
>
> It does raise a question though, how much do the download artifacts 
> get used? I've been thinking of a better way to do this, maybe for 
> later releases...
>
> I've also created the release page but need some input on that:
> http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.8.2/
>
>    1. *Taglibs: *Haven't been distributed since 2.6, and the bit of
>       HTML that renders the link is commented out. So I assume its ok
>       to leave them out.
>    2. *Javadocs: *Will generate them for the core set of modules and
>       upload them. Shouldn't be an issue.
>    3. *Release Notes in confluence: * Haven't been updated since
>       2.8.0. There are none for 2.8.1. They also duplicate a lot of
>       the content in the install guide. What do you want to do for 2.8.2?
>       https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.8+Release+Notes
>
>
> I want this release done before I leave on Friday morning, so we have 
> some news to announce at the conference. Can I get a list of people 
> willign to test the artifacts once they are done?
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
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