[jboss-dev] JBoss AS branching and next releases

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Yes, Branch_5_x, and trunk as well.

Howard Gao wrote:
> 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...
>>
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