| [wtp-releng] Status and outlook for WTP 3.2.4 |
There have been no new bug fixes on the maintenance stream since last week. But, the observant will notice there was an additional build, on 4/29 [1]. (I say "the observant" on purpose, to exclude myself, since I'd forgotten about this until I started looking closely this evening ... apologies to those of you who I said "there's been no new bugs requested for our final build" when you were probably asking me if there were any other builds).
The difference from 4/28 to 4/29 was a follow-through to the approved bug 343770 [2] which we added in a last minute respin. Nick asked and I agreed he should fix the test feature versioning related to that bug fix, and he added some logging to a unit test that failed. A diff on the map files [3] show these were the only changes from 4/28 to 4/29 build.
I suggest we just declare this latest, 4/29 build, with no formal smoke testing. I think we are all simply doing "final testing" until we release so I'm sure most will want to do final testing on this build, but I'm confident the non-unit-test portions are identical. I guess as an alternative, we could just skip the versioning fix since just in a test feature, but seems cleaner to declare it, and little risk. As another alternative we could do a formal smoke test, but we will soon be asking for formal release sign-off, so seems like a lot of paper work.
According to our schedule [4], this week is our "final build" on 5/6, and next week we will formally release on 5/13. The final week is supposed to be "quite week", with no more builds, but I'm sure we would at least consider a new build if a serious regression was discovered, since we want to maintain good, stable quality.
Let me know if others have different points of view, but if there's no objections before our 2:00 status meeting, we'll go with this "just declare it" strategy. Later, next week, we'll begin a formal "sign off" on the release, just to document all Project Leads agree we are done and the 4/29 build is the build to release.
Thank you,
[1] http://build.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/wtp-R3.2.4-M/20110429183427/M-3.2.4-20110429183427/
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343770
[3] $ diff M-3.2.4-20110428170154.directory.txt M-3.2.4-20110429183427.directory.txt