[Biojava-l] Re: New snapshot

[Matthew Pocock]

Morning

Gerald Loeffler wrote:

> hi!
>
> Excellent contribution - and a lot of volunteering (-:
>
> Why not skip the branching-off of the release candidate branch (steps 1
> to 4 below)? I've never actually seen anyone doing that. Why not  simply
> fork the release branch off the main branch when everyone is happy
> calling it 1.0?
>
>         just curious,
>         gerald
>

I agree. In the future, we should go through the whole gambit, but since we have
no previous version to safeguard, I think we can just fork off a 1.0 branch
as-and-when. Pounding the code is a very good thing for us to do. I am still
finding niggles, and I am sure that other people have found interesting
behaivour / bad docs.

The UML would be great. If you would like to take charge of the tag/branching
CVS stuff, then great. Mail me and we can sort out an account.

Matthew

> <snip/>
> > Since we are readily approaching the 1.0 release date, I would suggest we
> > outline a plan for precisely what needs to be done (on more of the project
> > management side of things - the code is coming together nicely) before the
> > 1.0 release.
> >
> > 0.  prepare for a code freeze (everyone makes sure their changes are
> > checked in by a certain date)
> >
> > 1.  create a cvs branch tag flagging what we intend to release
> > ('release-candidate-1.0' or something similar)
> >
> > 2.  everyone pounds the code (and proofreads the docs) as hard as possible
> > to make certain we won't need to quickly release a version 1.0.1  ;)
> >
> > Code fixes are checked into the 'release-candidate-1.0' branch
> >
> > 3.  solidify the build process, working with the 'release-candidate-1.0'
> > branch
> >
> > 4.  when everyone gives the thumbs-up on the branch build, the changes are
> > merged back into the main branch
> >
> > 5.  a new branch tag 'release-1.0' is created, builds are made, the ftp
> > site & web pages are updated, and announcement emails are sent to
> > interested parties
> >
> > 6.  new development continues on the main branch, while bug fixes are made
> > on the 'release-1.0' branch
> >
> > btw,  I am volunteering to produce a full set of UML diagrams for the 1.0
> > release.  I use RationalRose (which is a rather expensive commercial
> > product, unfortunately), so I'm looking to the list to let me know what
> > the best format for distribution is (Rose format (which is ascii-based),
> > gif, jpeg, png ??).
> >
> > I might have the patience to reproduce the diagrams in ArgoUML (an
> > open-source UML editor) if there's a lot of demand.
> >
> > I may also volunteer to manage the repository through this process if no
> > one else is comfortable.  ;)
> >
> >    michael
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Biojava-l mailing list  -  Biojava-l@biojava.org
> > http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
>
> --
>    Gerald.Loeffler@vienna.at _________________ Software Architect
>    http://www.imp.univie.ac.at ____ http://www.daemonstration.com
>    OOA&D, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, ODBMS, RDBMS, XML
> _______________________________________________
> Biojava-l mailing list  -  Biojava-l@biojava.org
> http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l

--
Joon: You're out of your tree
Sam:  It wasn't my tree
                                                 (Benny & Joon)