[jboss-dev] JBoss AS branching and next releases

[Howard Gao]

Happy New Year Dimitirs! Your message comes just in good time. :) I am 
about to commit JBM examples into Branch_5_0 so I think now Branch_5_x 
is the one!

Howard



Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> Hi there and Happy New Year!
>
> following up on the discussions about AS branching:
>
> a) the branch that produced AS 5.0.0.GA should be considered "dead". 
> We won't be doing a dot release from this branch (5.0.1.CR1)
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_0/
>
> b) trunk was instead branched into:
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_x/
> The next AS release to fix 5.0.0 glitches and introduce any missing 
> EAP features will be 5.1. As it is now the branch produces 5.1.0.Beta1 
> but I'm not clear yet if we have time for a Beta1 version; maybe we 
> have to go directly to CR1.
>
> c) trunk will produce the next AS6 release (6.0.0.Alpha1)
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/
> This is still WIP as to how exactly AS6 will look like, or if it will 
> further broken out.
>
> JIRA needs adjustment, so that all the 5.0.0.CR1 issues move to 
> 5.1.0.Beta1. It also needs a good cleaning up as we'll have more than 
> 200 tasks scheduled for 5.1.
>
> Hudson will be adjusted accordingly, too.
>
> When we have a clearer idea about the effort needed for 5.1 we'll come 
> up with target dates.
>
> Cheers
> /Dimitris
>
> PS
> for David: branch/Branch_xyz is just legacy from the CVS days...
>