[tei-council] next release?

[James Cummings]

Just a reminder for everyone to finish off as many tickets as 
they can before tomorrow.

If you happen to check them off as done on 
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/AnnArbor2012-Actions then that is 
good as well.

-James


On 15/06/12 12:04, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> Dear fellow-Councillors,
>
> James and I have decided to delay today's release until this coming
> Monday, June 18, to allow a couple of last minute fixes to go in, and so
> that we're not left trying to repair things right before and/or over the
> weekend if anything goes wrong. (This will be release 2.1.0, codename:
> "Earhart's Crossing".)
>
> This means: (a) any tickets you've been meaning to close but not yet
> gotten around to, you now have the chance to do this weekend; (b) nobody
> should commit any changes to the TEI SVN from 09:00 GMT next Monday,
> until given the all clear by myself or James, hopefully later in the
> day. I'll send a further reminder to this effect on Monday morning.
>
> Best,
>
> Gabby
>
> On 14/06/2012 17:48, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> A reminder to all that we're now coming up to our 15 June release
>> date.
>>
>> Get any changes in, soon, and mark them off:
>> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/AnnArbor2012-Actions
>>
>> -James
>>
>> On 20/05/12 21:47, James Cummings wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I think events have caught up with us and that May 25th deadline
>>> is looming.  I know I've barely chipped the surface of things
>>> assigned to me, and the meeting minutes are still coming (almost
>>> there I'm told).  I propose that we push back the next release
>>> until the week ending 15 June.  Does that seem unreasonable for
>>> anyone, or any counter proposals?
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>>> On 25/04/12 22:02, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
>>>> The first week of June is likely to be bad for me; I'm back from
>>>> international travel around the 4th, I think, and will be groggy the
>>>> first couple days after that. So if not May 25th, then best to put it
>>>> off by two weeks. (Or someone else be launch technician...)
>>>>
>>>> G
>>>>
>>>> On 24/04/2012 10:42, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> What do others think? We can of course move releasing back to
>>>>> whenever we've finished a majority of tickets, but I'd prefer
>>>>> sooner rather than later and a deadline that forces us to get
>>>>> stuff done.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm of the opinion that we probably don't need to telco before
>>>>> this release (we can, after all, conduct business on the mailing
>>>>> list), but would do so shortly after the release to get updates
>>>>> on the longer-term issues and reports from the council working
>>>>> groups.
>>>>>
>>>>> thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> -James
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23/04/12 22:20, Piotr Bański wrote:
>>>>>> Hi James,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isn't May 25 roughly in the middle of LREC? Could we shift by a week
>>>>>> from then, please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (I actually intend to be ready with my stuff [and possibly more] in
>>>>>> advance this time, but I've made some such totally honest promises to
>>>>>> myself and to the world recently, several times, and with meager results...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah. Will we telco before releasing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         P.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23/04/12 17:47, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How about we set a notional target release date of 25 May?  (This
>>>>>>> is about 5 weeks from now.) If we assume that we want most things
>>>>>>> completed by the end of Sunday 20th, to allow time for
>>>>>>> proofreading and error spotting.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does that sounds reasonable to most people?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gaby: Most importantly, does the proposed Release Technician like
>>>>>>> these dates?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -James
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 21/04/12 18:50, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>>>>>> Three weeks will be a bit tough for me, and a couple of the tickets I
>>>>>>>> have might turn out to have unpredicted side-effects (like the tei_
>>>>>>>> prefix). As long as we have the option to launch without the change if
>>>>>>>> it proves difficult, we could go with three weeks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The attributes-without-examples problem is so large that we'll just have
>>>>>>>> to hack away at it steadily.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Martin
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 12-04-21 04:03 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>>>>>> something we forgot to debate in Ann Arbor was a timetable
>>>>>>>>> for the next release, I think? i.e. what is the due date for
>>>>>>>>> everyone to complete their ticket work so that Sir Gabriel
>>>>>>>>> of B'odard can undertake his Quest.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> speaking for myself, if I don't do my assignments
>>>>>>>>> more or less immediately I will not get to them for ages,
>>>>>>>>> so I favour a short window (say, 3 weeks).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sebastian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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