Re: [orbit-dev] Final Stable build ... and next to Final build?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know I'll have to give this a bit
more thought, but I'll state some issues and thoughts here for discussion.


1. I suggest that today we promote the
latest 'committers' S build to 'downloads' for some folks to use for their
final RC3 builds, and perhaps Platform could use that for final RC4 build?
Or, is it too late for Platform's RC4? 

2. I think we need to fix the "pre-built"
processing,  bug 178723, before we are "final" (and, ironically,
I think Platform is only one affected by this ... only one to use those
pre-built jars). 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=178723

2b. I think I can fix that "bug"
over weekend, so should be ready next week. 

3. Are we all set on the IP xml files?
At some point something was going to be produced during builds? But, I've
lost track. 

4. I do think we need a "final"
area, Perhaps just called "released". BUT, I am not sure how
we would then handle changes required to any bundles in that released area.
I would not expect it to be frequent, but occasionally I'm sure there will
be fixes/improvements needed -- and sometimes there _might_ be a "sev
1" sort of bug where some bundle is really broken. If we leave the
"released" URL unchanged, then the .qualifier of a bundle could
change for someone using that area. 
Normally, I suspect this is "good"
(fixes bugs) but, some would consider "bad" (changes their repeatable
build). 
So ... how to handle? Have "evolving"
release areas? And clients could decide which they wanted to use? Or, should
we really focus on having a 
single URL repository ... and that repository
URL would never change, though it's contents might. 

4b. Oh, duh, how about both? A persistent,
URL repository where the contents might change, if bad bugs found, but
still "persist" the dated 'release' URLs? 

5. My guess is end-of next week would
be earliest we could have a final version (with any confidence). How "late"
is this for Platform? 

Comments, dissent, improvements, and
insights are welcome.

Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>
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06/06/2007 03:15 PM

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Subject	[orbit-dev] Final Stable build

As our team will be releasing RC4 this week,  I was wondering when
Orbit would be releasing a "final" Stable build for Europa?  
The reason I'm asking is that the in order for our release to be reproducible
we'd like to point to an Orbit build that won't be deleted.

thanks. 
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