[wtp-pmc] Fw: Please smoke test 1.5.1 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 -- 06:50 (UTC)

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Fellow PMC members, 

Been a busy week? :)  I know several
were just submitted yesterday, but there are many bugs that still need
PMC review. 

When asked, I told committers to go
ahead and release for our release candidate this week (based on my review
alone), 
with the condition that they might have
to revert if any PMC member objected. But, please finish your 
reviews today since we should not really
revert after we declare. 

And .. please keep your eye on the list
through out the day, in case there's any late-breaking candidates for a
re-spin. 

http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.5.1/pmc-bug-approval.php

I'm sure there will be more candidates
for another candidate next week ... but, we want to do what we can to minimize
them. 

Much thanks, 



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David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM

09/14/2006 09:39 AM

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Subject	Please smoke test         1.5.1 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 -- 06:50 (UTC)

Please smoke test and report results
to wtp-releng@xxxxxxxxxxx

1.5.1
 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 -- 06:50 (UTC) 

Remember, we want this build (or, what ever we end up
declaring on Friday, if respin is needed) to be our "release candidate"
for 
the Callisto Fall Maintenance, which means all on its
own it really should be worth of a maintenance release, if we absolutely
could not 
include more fixes after this week. 

This means, this "smoke test" should be little
deeper than most ... please confirm versions IDs, visually inspect (or
use "diff") 
on installed runtime and SDK code to confirm all is as
expected, and use it to verify any previous blocking or critical bug fixes!


This means, after declared, only the safest, highest impact,
most review, and most tested fixes for the worst bugs should be brought
forward 
for consideration. Yes, we want to improve quality, but,
at this point stability and avoidance of regressions is just as important.