[squeak-dev] 4.2 next steps

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Dec 13 19:01:38 UTC 2010


On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Casey Ransberger wrote:

> If the good people of Squeak can give me a list of doIts to run on the image after pulling down the updates (can't find the list I made anywhere,) I can roll up a new trunk image and push it up to the FTP server tonight or tomorrow.

I think you should only evaluate this after updating the image:

Smalltalk cleanUp: false.


Levente

>
> I told Hannes I'd do this a month ago but got inundated with work: sorry for dropping the ball Hannes.
>
> On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We should wrap up on putting new features into the trunk now so we can
>> focus on applying final fixes and getting 4.2 out the door.
>>
>> We need volunteers for these items:
>>
>> [ ] Build a 4.2alpha trunk image, upload to ftp.squeak.org.  We can
>> work from this base until final release.
>>
>> [ ] Review and clean the Inbox; merge things that should be, remove
>> things that shouldn't, leave items that should be left for further
>> consideration.
>>
>> [ ] Mantis bugs:  Do we have any bugs on Mantis critical for 4.2?
>>
>> [ ] Release notes:  Who will put together 4.2 release notes?
>>
>> [ ] Welcome message and showcase projects?
>>
>> [ ] Create a 4.2 release repository on source.squeak.org we can use to
>> backport future fixes.
>>
>> [ ] Make all tests green.
>>
>> [ ] Do we need a new ReleaseBuilder method / subclass?  How does
>> SystemVersion get updated?
>>
>> [ ] Coordination with the new VM; we just need to make sure any
>> image-items needed for the new VM's are present.
>>
>>
>> We can get all of this done in 2010 if we will each volunteer for
>> something.  Early volunteers get to choose which items they prefer to
>> work on by stating so here.  :)
>>
>> - Chris
>>
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