[jboss-dev] Re: AS 4.2.2.GA status - please read

[Tim Fox]

Amit Bhayani wrote:
> Whats the release date for Messaging 1.4.GA?

We are currently looking good for a release this Friday.

Clebert is handling the release since I'm currently in Neuchatel.

> Portal team, next release of Installer will have Portal 2.6.1.GA hope no 
> change in that.
> This time let us make sure that Installer releases no latter than 7 days 
> from AS 4.2.2.GA release.
> 
> Amit.
> 
> 
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> The deadline for most of the work for 4.2.2.GA is Sep/30th. After 
>> that, only last minute fixes before we enter the final QA cycle. The 
>> target release date is around mid-October.
>>
>> We are down to 20 issues/tasks.
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=10030&fixfor=12311522 
>>
>>
>> Please make sure we haven't missed something important you want to see 
>> in AS 4.2.2.GA. However, consider that we have very limited time to 
>> work on Branch_4_2.
>>
>> Please check if something is assigned to you:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12310851 
>>
>>
>> A summary follows:
>>
>> Component Updates
>> =================
>> 2 pending component upgrades:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4550 - a JBossWeb 2.0.1.GA from 
>> Remy
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4731 - JBoss Cache 1.4.1.SP5, 
>> we might not make it for this one.
>>
>> There is also an ongoing saga with the hsqldb upgrade and the shutdown 
>> problems that cause the ejb3 testsuite to hang. Brian found a 
>> workaround, but if that doesn't work out we'll rollback:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4694
>>
>> Testsuites
>> ==========
>>
>> --- ejb3 ---
>> The EJB3 testsuite needs attention:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4572 (BillD)
>>
>> The last good run on CC shows 13 failures:
>> http://cruisecontrol.jboss.com/cc/buildresults/ejb3-4.2-testsuite?log=log20070925235738 
>>
>>
>> I still don't see any good run on Hudson, I triggered yet another one:
>> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/EJB3/
>>
>> --- jboss-4.2-testsuite ---
>>
>> The last run has only transaction manager test failures:
>> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-4.2.x-TestSuite-sun15/27/testReport/ 
>>
>>
>> 3 are known (org.jboss.test.tm.test.TransactionLocalUnitTestCase), 
>> another one looks new:
>> org.jboss.test.tm.test.TxTimeoutUnitTestCase.testOverriddenTimeoutExpires. 
>> However it passes locally on my machine.
>>
>> The jrockit run shows a lot of clustering failures.
>> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-4.2.x-TestSuite-jrockit15/23/testReport/ 
>>
>> Those look transient ones because the previous run had only 5 failures:
>> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-4.2.x-TestSuite-jrockit15/22/testReport/ 
>>
>>
>> It would be nice to come up with more stable runs.
>>
>> -- TCK 1.4 ---
>>
>> Before release we should perform a full tck1.4 run:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4754 (rajesh)
>>
>> Documents
>> =========
>> Ongoing work here:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4696
>>
>> Installer
>> =========
>> The installer for AS 4.2.1 was delayed for various reasons. Maybe it's 
>> better to just wait now and release an installer for AS 4.2.2 with 
>> JBoss Messaging 1.4.0.GA (Amit?)
>>
>> JIRA Tasks
>> ==========
>>
>> Critical tasks related to the transaction manager (Jonathan):
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4675
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4690
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4748
>>
>> A lot of security related stuff that needs attention (Anil?)
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4404
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3169
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3378
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3143
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4752
>>
>> Other
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4667 - Adrian
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3142 - Clebert
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4523 - Heiko Braun
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-2282 - Alexey
>>
>> Cheers
>> /Dimitris
>>
> 

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Tim Fox
Messaging lead
JBoss - a division of Red Hat