Re: Progress towards a release

Thomas: Can I be so bold as to ask you to apply your new found 
CodeWrestler expertise to the JCS trunk?  Doing this would bring us a 
step closer to a release.

TIA,

Scott

Scott Eade wrote:
> So going over the messages triggered by my email of 10 days ago I have 
> the following list:
>
> * There are a small number of apparent test failures - Scott noted a 
> few, Thomas noted just one.
> I have spent some time today looking at these and Aaron is quite right 
> - they do all run successfully.  The apparent failures crop up when 
> the tests are run via maven on a fast machine - if the test classes 
> are executed individually they run just fine.  Is there a way we can 
> alter these so that they can execute correctly in all cases?
>
> * A review of project.xml revealed a number of dependencies using 
> fairly old versions.
> I have just now committed an update that brings most of these up to 
> date.  I also added the jar and java plugin properties suggested by 
> Thomas to explicitly state the compiler version desired by Aaron and 
> to include this information in the jar manifest.
>
> * The source headers are still to be updated.  I was thinking that 
> this should wait until the all the tests pass, but since they actually 
> do there is no longer any need to hold off doing this.  Henning, can 
> you please proceed with running your script against 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/jcs/trunk
>
> * Michael Stevens has offered to produce a Maven 2 POM (for users of 
> Maven 2, not for building purposes).  Michael, there is no time like 
> the present...
>
> * There are seven open issues in Jira.  I am of the opinion that 
> JCS-13 should be skipped for now.  Are there any strong opinions on 
> the others?
>
> * What version number will we call the release?  "1.2.7.9.3" may raise 
> a few eyebrows.
>
> Let's get the above sorted, then we can build a site and release 
> package on which to vote.  Thomas's release experience will come in 
> handy at this point.
>
> Let me know if I have missed anything.
>
> Scott
>
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