[wtp-releng] Status and reminders for RC2

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It appears the smoke tests are progressing
without incident, thanks everyone for your prompt attention. If anyone
can NOT finish up this afternoon, please let us know (via this list). 

I've moved several "RC2 PMC Requests"
to RC3 ... we should only be touching RC2 now for "blocking"
problems. 

But, RC2 will be touched some, I've
updated some stuff for update sites to work, and from cvs logs, it appears
jsdt team released something they forgot to release yesterday (tsk, tsk),
and, we will be re-spinning some as the "final" RC2 bits of our
pre-reqs get promoted -- if they get promoted early enough (appears platform
will be). I would not expect any change that would break us or require
re-testing ... but that's what I said last week too! So ... I suggest teams
keep an eye on the builds Monday and Tuesday and when pre-reqs that are
critical to you become final for each team to give a quick sanity test
-- no need to wait for a re-spin (there might not even be one), you can
get their pre-reqs from their download sites (emf, emf-xsd, gef, dtp) and
just make sure basics run. As far as I am concerned we do not need a formal
sign-off on these "final pre-req" tests, but instead assume some
minimal number of people will give it a kick and complain if problems found.


Over the weekend, and Monday and Tuesday
before we formally declare, I think it's ok if teams commit doc or JavaDoc
changes to head, if you are pretty sure they'd be approved, and even manually
kick off a HEAD Build if you'd like. But please do not release anything,
unless it is a blocking defect for RC2. 

As lastly, remember we are entering
the "two vote" period for RC3 ... I'll be fixing up the summary
page later this afternoon. 

Much thanks,