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

[David Horwitz]

Its up at

qa1-za.sakaiproject.org

started up with no issues ones I had updated the mysql hibernate dialect ...

D

On 06/04/2012 10:39 AM, David Horwitz wrote:
> 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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