[tei-council] Next Release; Codename: GroundHog Day

[James Cummings]

On 02/02/12 09:57, James Cummings wrote:
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> I believe Becky is arguing that it should be target not type.

And I was slower than Lou in pointing it out, and indeed fixing 
it in SVN.

On the topic of TEI Guidelines releases over the last couple days 
I've updated tcw20.xml with a list of steps for a 'release 
technician', who is the person in charge of making the release 
(in this case Martin), with a list of steps that the technician 
must ensure are completed.

Martin, Sebastian, and I have talked through some of them which 
are a bit vague at the moment (like "Ensure that the oxygen-tei 
project is updated"), but if I've left out any steps do please 
let me know (or add them to the list if you are able). We may 
break out 'How to release the TEI Guidelines' as a separate 
document from its current place in 'How to edit the TEI 
Guidelines' eventually.

As it is about 10am here that means it is about 2am in Vancouver. 
When Martin wakes up (this afternoon for my timezone) he will 
begin going through those steps.  *If* all goes smoothly then I 
*believe* that this may be the first release of TEI P5 that has 
not been pushed live by someone affiliated in some way with 
Oxford. (Correct me if I'm wrong Lou?)  If that is indeed the 
case I'd like to include it in the announcement to TEI-L as an 
indication of how the TEI is becoming increasingly a distributed 
open source project, etc.  (Not that it wasn't before but it is 
good if it is seen as such.)

-James

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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford