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

[James Cummings]

On 02/02/12 13:36, Martin Holmes wrote:
> OK, Jenkins is updated, and the VERSION file, readme and guidelines-*
> files have been done. Waiting for the Jinkses to do their thing. Could
> we hold off on commits for the rest of the day, just to keep things simple?

For those following along a home, this is Martin doing step 4 of:

http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw20.xml#release-steps

in announcing a temporary freeze on commits to SVN to the council 
mailing list.

(Because, of course, if you commit something, Jenkins fires off 
again and we have to wait through the entire build again.)

-James

>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-02-02 05:17 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> I'm up and beginning work on it now. I'm currently working with
>> Sebastian to get my Jenkins server in sync with his, and I'm writing the
>> release notes. Hoping to get those done, and VERSION updated, before
>> breakfast, then during the time when I'm going to work, the Jenkins
>> servers will do their thing and I'll have release packages ready by the
>> time I get to the office. Then I'll carry on from there.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 12-02-02 02:14 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>>> On 02/02/12 09:57, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>


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