[jboss-dev] EJB3 Release Schedule

[Anil Saldhana]

ALR, should it not be 1.0.0.GA?

Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
> 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.