[tei-council] Reflections on the release

[Martin Holmes]

Hi all,

Elli and Syd did a great job on yesterday's release process, which went 
a little more smoothly than some previous ones. There were a couple of 
minor wrinkles, though.

We discovered that one of our release scripts wasn't quite working 
right. The version of the TEI Guidelines which was initially installed 
on the tei-c website was missing all the site menus due to a path 
misconfiguration in the script. That was fixed, and it worked properly 
in the end.

Another issue relates to the problem we discovered with Roma a few days 
ago; it turned out that Roma's eXist back-end had been using an old 
version of TEI, so updates during previous releases had not, as we 
thought, actually worked properly. We've removed a rather complicated 
PERL script from the process, and now confirmed that a simpler update 
process does work, but we also plan to install an updated version of 
eXist on the tei-c server and test updating it ahead of the next 
release, whenever that is.

Also, as it turns out, neither Syd nor I were able to build the 
oxygen-tei add-on, trying on a variety of machines. Sebastian was able 
to build it -- he does it regularly, every time there's a new 
Stylesheets release -- so we're now investigating what's special about 
his setup versus ours, and we plan to document in more detail exactly 
what's involved in that build process.

I'm going to raise a bugs for the last two of these so that we don't 
lose track of them. In the meantime, does anyone else involved in the 
process yesterday have any comments or issues they think we should also 
work on?

Cheers,
Martin