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

[Steve Swinsburg]

Cool thanks for the feedback Aaron.

I should have the built artifacts online tomorrow, just need to upload the hundreds of mb ;)


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On 04/06/2012, at 8:37 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:

> Thanks for all the hard work and effort here Steve! I think this is
> very valuable for the community and definitely something we will
> mention at the TCC/CLE team update (at the least).
> 
> My opinions:
>> 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 don't use them and at Unicon we prefer to build all artifacts ourselves.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I didn't realize this wasn't being used. We should probably remove it
> from trunk right?
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Seems like just adding something to the "major" release page would be
> enough since mostly we are just talking about bug fixes. Not quite the
> same as some other open source projects but less effort and probably
> easier for users to find what they are looking for.
> 
> :-)
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> 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
>> 
>> 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/
>> 
>> 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.
>> Javadocs: Will generate them for the core set of modules and upload them.
>> Shouldn't be an issue.
>> 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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