[jboss-as7-dev] JBoss AS 7.0.0.Beta1 tagged...

[David M. Lloyd]

I don't have any really good solution to this problem...

On 03/17/2011 05:23 AM, Thomas Diesler wrote:
> David, the AS test suite needs to be comprehensive - no doubt. However,
> we have a release cycle that is different from AS and continuously test
> a large set of OSGi functionality against AS7 trunk one a nightly basis.
>
> Following your suggested approach, I would need to duplicate every OSGi
> example and functional test in the AS7 code base. Alternatively, I'm
> suggesting to have a known "Code Freeze" date and give every subsystem
> that has an external test suite a chance to verify/veto the intended
> release code base.
>
> 1.0.0.Beta1 was broken for OSGi webapps because of last minute changes -
> I'm looking for ways to possibly fix Beta1 and have a reasonable process
> that avoids this to happen in the future.
>
> cheers
> -thomas
>
> On 03/16/2011 02:30 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> Thomas I think ultimately we need a comprehensive in-AS test suite.
>> This is the only way we're going to be able to catch problems on an
>> ongoing basis. I don't think we can afford to externally validate only
>> once per release - I can absolutely guarantee that this will cause
>> unexpected release delays.
>>
>> On 03/16/2011 04:27 AM, Thomas Diesler wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> do we have a process that allows subsystem providers to verify a
>>> potential AS7 release before it gets tagged? I have an extensive OSGi
>>> testsuite that runs on a nightly basis against AS7 master. I noticed
>>> this morning that this commit
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/commit/fd5696596545d9d9c2e4eb4c499bf3f1b7be62f1#server/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/server/deployment/Phase.java
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> broke OSGi webapp support again. The related issue, which I now
>>> reopened, is https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8940
>>>
>>> Can we perhaps resolve this issue before Beta1 becomes generally
>>> available?
>>> To move forward I'll improve OSGi test coverage to a level were it
>>> covers everything that is expected to work.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> -thomas
>>>
>>> On 03/16/2011 02:14 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>> I've pushed out a 7.0.0.Beta1-prerelease tag and updated upstream for
>>>> Beta2 development. Later this week Jason will be setting the release
>>>> "code name" and uploading the binary artifacts to be made available for
>>>> downloading and taking care of all that business.
>>>>
>>>> Big thanks to everyone who put in extra effort to get this tag done. I
>>>> expect that the official release announcement will be happening later
>>>> this week.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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