Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] XEclipse Release

Hi everybody, a follow-up about the discussion, sorry for the delay. I am working towards merging Jun's code in order to have a release. I think that my preference goes towards the following plan: 1) Leave the 1.2RC1 as it is and deprecate it 2) Merge Jun's work in order to release it and call this release 1.3M1 3) Start fixing bugs (there are quite a few) in order to move forward to a RC and final release I think this is a good approach because what Jun did is too much for a RC1 -> RC2 transition (and as Sergiu said it warrants a new version), and it still have some problems that must be fixed before calling it RC. To solve Vincent's issue about "unfinished releases" what we could do is to do a "combo" release: 1.2 Final with the current state of 1.2RC1, and 1.3M1 with Jun's work. We announce the two at the same time and we say that 1.2 is deprecated in favor of 1.3M1. We can put this this information also in the download page, telling people that 1.3M1 is the version they should actually use. WDYT?

-Fabio On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >> On 09/23/2011 04:10 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> Fabio and Eddy are working on merging Jun's GSOC code in master for XEclipse and are preparing for a release (could you send us a proposal guys?). >>> >>> It seems that the last release of XEclipse was 1.2RC1 so it's a bit of a shitty situation since normally so much change would have warranted a 1.3 release. >>> >>> However I'm proposing that the next release be 1.2RC2 and when we've tested it enough we then quickly release 1.2 final to get it over with. >>> >>> The alternative is to: >>> - get the 1.2RC1 tag >>> - release it again as 1.2 final >>> - consider all Jun's changes to be 1.3M1 >>> >>> However that solution has 2 issues: >>> - it's more time consuming >>> - we're not 100% sure that the last 1.2RC1's quality was good enough to be named 1.2 final >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> My preferences goes to having Jun's code be in a 1.2RC2 release. >> >> I wonder if the changes are big enough to warrant a 2.0 release instead. >> I'd be in favor of releasing 2.0 RC1. > > My only problem with that is that I don't like too much to leave some "unfinished release" (the last release we did was 1.2RC1). Maybe it doesn't matter… > > Thanks > -Vincent