[tei-council] gearing up for release 2.6.0

[James Cummings]

On 18/01/14 22:47, Peter Stadler wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> this is to officially remind you of the upcoming release which
> we decided to be carried out next Monday (i.e. the day after
> tomorrow!) I (Peter, ‚special status release technician‘) plan
> to start things in the morning around 9 AM (CET). It’s been
> calm at tei at sourceforge in the last days so I assume that
> everyone is actually aware of this date and paused his/her
> work.

Yes, I believe that to be the case. I might be unavailable from 
9AM CET to 10am CET but fingers crossed that won't be too much of 
a problem.

> Now the unofficial part. I’m a little bit nervous and
> appreciate any hand that will hold mine (not the whole day,
> but it’d be good to know someone (from Oxford?) being around).
> BTW, is the #tei-c IRC channel the best way to reach out for
> help since I’ve never seen someone around there? Or shall I
> send an email?

I'm in the #tei-c IRC on freenode.net almost all the time. 
(Though admittedly I'm just logged in, not necessarily looking at 
the screen. ;-) ) I'll definitely be checking there. However, 
I'll be on google hangouts, skype, and email.

> Additionally some questions that came up: *
> P5/ReleaseNotes/readme-2.6.0.xml: is this considered complete
> by now?

I believe so, but if you feel something is missing from it, 
either add it yourself or let me know.

> * item 7 from
> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw22.xml
> seems outdated.

Yes, amongst others.

> ** I already log in as user tei and I’m not able to sudo (asks
> for password). Question 1: Do I need su power?

No, we only needed it to become the TEI user, and you are already 
that.

> ** I do not find a bin directory and svnUp.sh. What I do find
> is the TEI svn subtree „P5“ at
> /var/www/vhosts/tei-c.org/private/P5. Question 2: Is a simple
> ‚svn up‘ on that directory enough?

That seems to work, I just tried it. But can someone 
(Sebastian/Martin?) remind me what the local copy of SVN is used 
for other than the location the install scripts?  (it is in 
~/private/P5/Utilities/)


> * tei-database-rebuild.sh: I think the hostname case switch
> must be adjusted

Maybe, not sure.  localhost comes back as: 
s16382816.onlinehome-server.info

>
> Some proposed changes to tcw22.xml so far:

> * "What you will need before you start“, item 2 (Shell access
> on the TEI SourceForge project) I propose to join this item
> with with 3 and 7 (well, not in one item but to have these in
> a sequence) and to add a line to the last one (or even a new
> item): Test it by trying to log in via ‚ssh
> sfuser,tei at frs.sourceforge.net‘ *from* the tei server. That
> should *not* prompt for a password while echoing „Welcome!
> This is a restricted Shell Account. You can only copy files
> to/from here.“

Makes sense.


> * "Step-by-step instructions“, item 1 ("Ensure that
> P5/ReleaseNotes/readme-X.X.X.xml has been written“). The next
> line declares this to be an uncommon procedure since the TEI
> Council chair should have already create that file. So, it
> seems to me the actual issue for the release technician is to
> simply remove the „beta“ from the version number which can
> easily be forgotten when you are not looking closely at the
> following paragraph. I propose to change the heading to
> "remove „beta“ from P5/ReleaseNotes/readme-X.X.X.xml version
> number“ and emphasize this procedure in the first
> paragraph.The edge case of creating that file can be discussed
> subsequently.

Fair enough. (Though I'd have no problem with the release 
technician creating the notes.... ;-) )

-James
-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford