[Geoserver-devel] Time for 2.9.0 final? Or do we need a RC2?

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Hi,
I’m looking at the feverish activity on 2.9.x these days and comparing it with
the RCs of the last few years… I don’t recall one requiring such large last minute
changes, or being affected by these kind of problems, in a long while.
I’m also seeing smaller and larger improvements being merged last minute, too.
The “norm” in the last few years has been few bug fixes instead… strict indeed,
but besides that, there was no actual need to make much more than that.

So that makes me wonder, is it time to release 2.9.0, or to make a second release candidate?
Of course, 2.9.0 could turn out to be quite good, but by past experience high last minute
activity is not a good sign.

It could well be that delaying further the release is not going to make any good,
but still, I cannot help but wonder if releasing a RC2 would be a safer approach.

Opinions?

Cheers
Andrea

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I agree that there has been more issues found during this RC1 iteration, in part due to this release having a lot of codebase wide changes.

If I volunteer to make an RC2 I would need to make the 2.9.0 within a couple of days due to my availability. If we do make an RC2 I would like to ensure we have a specific thing to test (such as the GEOS-7507 installer + service wrapper),

My preference would be to make the 2.9.0 release next Tuesday (as it is a long weekend here in Canada).

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On 20 May 2016 at 11:30, Andrea Aime <andrea.aime@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi,
I’m looking at the feverish activity on 2.9.x these days and comparing it with
the RCs of the last few years… I don’t recall one requiring such large last minute
changes, or being affected by these kind of problems, in a long while.
I’m also seeing smaller and larger improvements being merged last minute, too.
The “norm” in the last few years has been few bug fixes instead… strict indeed,
but besides that, there was no actual need to make much more than that.

So that makes me wonder, is it time to release 2.9.0, or to make a second release candidate?
Of course, 2.9.0 could turn out to be quite good, but by past experience high last minute
activity is not a good sign.

It could well be that delaying further the release is not going to make any good,
but still, I cannot help but wonder if releasing a RC2 would be a safer approach.

Opinions?

Cheers
Andrea

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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com>
wrote:

I agree that there has been more issues found during this RC1 iteration,
in part due to this release having a lot of codebase wide changes.

If I volunteer to make an RC2 I would need to make the 2.9.0 within a
couple of days due to my availability. If we do make an RC2 I would like
to ensure we have a specific thing to test (such as the GEOS-7507 installer
+ service wrapper),
- My testing of the installer (
http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/downloads/releases/2.9-RC1-test/) went
smoothly - thanks Alessandro.
- The resource / importer changes would also qualify, if I had a day to
test I would work here.

My preference would be to make the 2.9.0 release next Tuesday (as it is a
long weekend here in Canada).

I believe Alessandro won't be in a position to make a pull request before
Monday. Also, the security vulnerability fix
is still waiting for feedback from the original reporter, and has thus not
landed on 2.9.x yet.
So... I believe we won't be in a position to cut whatever release before
sometimes Monday.

Cheers
Andrea

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Thanks for the update, Niels was unavailable to verify on of the issues as well.
Enjoy the weekend everyone,
Jody

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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

I agree that there has been more issues found during this RC1 iteration, in part due to this release having a lot of codebase wide changes.

If I volunteer to make an RC2 I would need to make the 2.9.0 within a couple of days due to my availability. If we do make an RC2 I would like to ensure we have a specific thing to test (such as the GEOS-7507 installer + service wrapper),

My preference would be to make the 2.9.0 release next Tuesday (as it is a long weekend here in Canada).

I believe Alessandro won’t be in a position to make a pull request before Monday. Also, the security vulnerability fix
is still waiting for feedback from the original reporter, and has thus not landed on 2.9.x yet.
So… I believe we won’t be in a position to cut whatever release before sometimes Monday.

Cheers

Andrea

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