Tuscany/TuscanyJava/DASJavaReleaseSteps

For the DAS release, we are going to start the first release candidate with a export of svn. We are not taken the branch aproach as we are pretty much done with the contents of the relase and the level of commits to the DAS area is relatively low right now.

Artifacts

source distribution

• - das-1.0-incubator-M2-RC1-src.zip

binary das distribution

• - das-1.0-incubator-M2-RC1-bin.tar.gz - das-1.0-incubator-M2-RC1-bin.zip

binary das sample distribution

• - das-samples-1.0-incubator-M2-RC1-bin.tar.gz - das-samples-1.0-incubator-M2-RC1-bin.zip

Necessary Documentation

Check the following documentation

• - http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html

• - LICENSE.txt

  • - see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt

  - NOTICE.txt
  • - should include reference to dependencies
  - BUILDING.txt

  • - get updated information from website : http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/java_das_overview.html

  - RELEASE_NOTES.txt

  • - get new features list from : http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Tuscany/TuscanyJava/DAS_Java_Overview

  - STATUS.txt and PROPOSAL.txt
  • - from M1

Exporting DAS Code

• create a release candidate directory
  • mkdir RC1 cd RC1
  export DAS, Sample and Distribution code

        svn export https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tuscany/java/das/
  
          >> exported revision 451468

Todo

• - http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-769

Questions

• - Do i need a proposal.txt
  • - No
  - DAS have SDO dependency, that depends on EMF
  • - should i list EMF in my NOTICE.txt ?
    • - yes
  - Why isn't SDO releasing any samples ?
  • - they have missed that and they are now adding it to the release

Batch file for creating distribution

• - createRelease.bat