[squeak-dev] 4.1 release tasks

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Fri Mar 19 01:31:49 UTC 2010


I think this deserves to be documented as a proposal, as is the normal requirement by the SOB and placed somewhere officially as a permanent record.
When this proposal has been accepted by the SOB this should be noted there as well.

Ken G. Brown

At 8:28 PM -0700 3/17/10, Andreas Raab apparently wrote:
>Folks -
>
>As stated in the previous message, here is a thread to gather release tasks and the time frame in which they should be addressed. I'm taking the "4 weeks to release" rather literally below because I want to avoid excessive discussions about what we should do with feature x or y. Rather, I'm saying let's ship it as it is, get it out quickly, and spend our time moving forward from there. With that said, here we go:
>
>[ ] Build a 4.1alpha trunk image
>What: We need to re-apply all the changes that went into trunk on top of 4.0 to create a proper 4.1 alpha. I'm planning to do this by the weekend and remove the previous trunk images since they're now obsolete.
>Who: Andreas
>When: March 20th
>
>[ ] Feature Freeze trunk
>What: Feature freeze the trunk. Only fixes for identified issues go in.
>Who: All core-devs.
>When: March 28th
>
>(this gives us one more week if you have anything that you feel strongly about)
>
>[ ] Make tests green
>What: Review all the tests on all platform; identify failing tests, make them pass or document known failures.
>Who: ???
>When: April 4th (this is a bit of wishful thinking...)
>
>[ ] Ensure current VMs
>What: Ensure that all platforms have current VMs available, with all required fixes applied.
>Who: VM maintainers
>When: April 4th
>
>[ ] Create a 4.1 release repository on source.squeak.org
>What: Create a release repository that we can point the release image to for subsequent 4.1 maintenance updates.
>Who: Any source.squeak.org admin
>When: ASAP.
>
>[ ] Identify Mantis bugs that should be in 4.1
>What: Categorize bugs that need to be looked at for the 4.1 release (does NOT imply fixing the bugs)
>Who: Everyone.
>When: April 4th.
>
>[ ] Build release candidates
>What: Start building release candidates to ensure we have a process. Casey probably still has a few make files around.
>Who: ???
>When: Ongoing.
>
>[ ] Write welcome message, press release
>What: Write a welcome message, overview of changes, press release etc.
>Who: ???
>When: April 4th.
>
>As a time line we get:
>
>ASAP:
>- Create 4.1 release repository
>
>March 20th:
>- Build a 4.1alpha trunk image
>
>March 28th:
>- Feature Freeze
>- RC1 build
>
>April 4th:
>- Green tests
>- Updated VMs
>- Mantis bugs organized
>- Welcome message, press release
>- RC2 build
>
>April 11th:
>- All bugs fixed (yeah, right :-)
>- RC3 build
>
>April 17th:
>- Ship date
>
>This is obviously a tight schedule but if we want to get the puppy out in four weeks we need to get schtuff done. I don't think it's unreasonable though; all the tasks are doable on their own, we just need a few people to step up and pick one they can help with.
>
>Cheers,
>  - Andreas




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