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

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Heiko Braun wrote:
> Dimitris,
> 
> my outstanding issue (http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4523)
> requires an update to the jbossws version that ships with 4.2.2.
> Currently it's still 1.2.1.GA.
> 
> It's not a big thing, the scripts under JBOSS_HOME/bin requires an
> update. But the dependencies are already there.

You mean the scripts need updating IF we move to 1.2.1.GA_CP01 ?

> My questions are:
 >
> * Why isn't 1.2.1.GA_CP01 included? 

Nobody asked for it and I don't monitor all patches that go into all projects used by AS.

Normally, customer or community requested fixes should be applied upstream to your 
"jbossws-branch-1.2" first, before checking that into a CP branch. Then we could use in AS a 
jbossws 1.2.1.SPx or a 1.2.2 version. Now, for luck of resources we could settle for a CP 
release, as well.

(Where is the contents of the CP tracked, BTW?)

> * The update would affect the JAX-WS tools, which are not supported in
> that release. Or did it change?

In the community version there is not really an issue of support. Nevertheless, there is the 
issue of backwards compatibility by allowing only point release upgrades for the libraries 
included with AS.

> * If we fix it, I would go release of the 1.2.1.GA_CP01 code base.

Not sure I understand. You want to provide a new release from the CP branch?


> Regards, Heiko 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:53 +0300, 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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