Windows installer release rights for Andreas (was Re: [daisy] Daisy 2.1 Release Candidate available)

[Bruno Dumon]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:15 +0200, Andreas Deininger wrote:
> 2007/7/31, Bruno Dumon <bruno at outerthought.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Daisy 2.1 Release Candidate is now available. Thanks to everyone who
> > contributed to this release.
> >
> > Downloads:
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176692
> 
> I just finished the compilation of the two windows-installer files for
> RC1 and would appreciate if I (or you) could upload them to
> sourceforge so that they are available for testing. My source forge
> login is deining.

Andreas,

Thanks a lot for taking care of this. AFAICS you already have the
necessary rights.

Anyway, I'd like to clearly state the following release conventions:

- the release you upload should be build from an export of the tagged
2.1-RC sources. If there have been any required (committed) changes to
the Windows installer code after tagging, it is acceptable to copy just
these changes, but _everything_ outside the Windows installer should be
left untouched. (maybe mention the SVN revision of the Windows installer
code in the release notes when uploading)

- if you would notice an error in the installer and like to fix it, and
upload a new release, the new release should have a new version number
(like 2.1a), not replace the existing version.

These conventions are necessary since otherwise the version numbers are
rather meaningless.

> 
> Also, I realized that the download size of the daisy build is
> constantly increasing. In case of Daisy 2.1-RC this is partly owed due
> to the fact that daisy is now shipped with jetty 6.1.3. Jetty alone
> has an (uncompressed) size of almost 44 MB. From these 44 MB, more
> than 22 MB javadoc, and I ask myself if it is really necessary to
> distribute that javadoc with daisy or whether we shouldn't excluded
> that (amongst other directories) from the daisy build.

I have also noticed the growing size. I didn't spend a lot of time
looking at it, but I'm quite sure the main cause isn't in the javadoc
since that compresses very well (not that I'm against excluding the
javadoc, just pointing out that it won't help much for the download
size).

> 
> Regards
> Andreas
> 
> PS: I ask myself whether the debian package of daisy (DSY-489) will be
> an official part of the daisy 2.1 release.

I don't suppose so, since it's been left untouched. IMO such a package
is also of limited use when there's no automated upgrade path.

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Bruno Dumon                             http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
bruno at outerthought.org                          bruno at apache.org