[jboss-dev] EJB3 Release Schedule

[Andrew Lee Rubinger]

Last week we did the following:

* Released 1.0.0 of all EJB3 subcomponents
* Updated the dependency chain and released jboss-ejb3-as-int:1.0.0-CR2
* Promoted 1.0.0-CR2 to 1.0.0
* Updated AS trunk, Branch_5_x, Branch_5_0 with EJB3 1.0.0
* Released the EJB3 Plugin 1.0.0[1], to patch JBossAS 5.0.0.GA with 
libraries needed to bring EJB3 1.0.0 current.
* Announced to our community[2]

Looking forward we'll be pledging releases on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of 
the month.  In practice we'll be starting the process on Thursdays to 
meet the deadline.

For our first straight-to-community release, all went pretty smoothly. 
Still TODO in future releases:

* Better integrate release process w/ JBossQA
* Document procedures for release (ie. JBossNews updates to Twitter, 
blogs, Release Notes, README, etc)
* Continue to chip away at "the continuous integration problem", in that 
dependency updates are all manual, there's no re-tagging/repackaging of 
CRs into GAs, and the testing process is much longer than we'd like.
* Get documentation/tutorials into the picture (Jaikiran's revamped and 
updated the suite)

S,
ALR

References:

[1] 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=132063
[2] http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=149232

Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
> After the 1.0.0-GA Release of the EJB3 Projects, we will continue to 
> push releases both to the community and into AS active branches at a 
> resolution of twice a month[1].  The EJB3 Team has not yet agreed upon a 
> formal schedule (ie. every 1st and 3rd Monday will lead to occasional 
> gaps in cases where a month has 5 Mondays).  After we've set this, we'll 
> reply back to this list with a commitment upon which the community and 
> dependent projects (ie. AS, WebBeans) may rely.

-- 
Andrew Lee Rubinger
Sr. Software Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc.
http://exitcondition.alrubinger.com