[jboss-dev] JBoss AS branching and next releases

[Howard Gao]

Yes, got it. Thanks!

Howard


Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> 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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