Struts 1.3.10 Release
Info
- Struts Release Guidelines 2. Signing Releases
3. Apache Mirroring Guidelines
Release Manager
The release manager is Paul Benedict
How to Help
Everyone in the Struts community, users, developers, and committers, is encouraged to test a release, report any issues, and post to dev@ any comments on the overall quality of the release.
The Struts 1.3.10 distribution will be available here: http://people.apache.org/builds/struts/1.3.10
To help everyone get started with Struts 1.3.10, here are the simplest installation instructions that can possibly work:
- Download the Struts 1.3.10 distribution (when it is available)
- Extract the distribution to a likely location (/opt/struts-1.3.6).
- If possible, try the JARs in a 1.2.x application that already compiles WITHOUT deprecations.
- Deploy and play-test the example applications from the /webapps folder to your web container
- If you see any error messages, please do a quick search of the mail archives and/or post them on the Dev list, and if they appear to be newly introduced issues, a JIRA tickets will need to be created so we can track and resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
- Vesion 1.3.10 is tagged. The issue can be logged against 1.3.10, but the fix would happen in 1.3.11 or later.
- If you see any error messages, please do a quick search of the mail archives and/or post them on the Dev list, and if they appear to be newly introduced issues, a JIRA tickets will need to be created so we can track and resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
- Change to the /docs directory and click-thru the documentation. If you notice anything awry, follow the "error messages" advice.
To test building Struts 1.3.10
- Install Java 1.5 and set JAVA_HOME
- Install Maven 2 and set MAVEN_HOME ** http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsMaintenanceMaven
- Change to the new folder (e.g., /opt/struts-1.3.10/src)
- $ mvn install
- Wait five minutes or more for Maven to download and build everything
- $ cd assmbly
- $ mvn assembly:assembly
- The distribution will be deposited in 'assembly/target/assembly/out'.
- If you encounter any problems with the build, follow the "error messages" advice.
- Oh, and THANK YOU for your help.
Issues
TO DO
Preparation Checklist
Description |
Status |
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1. |
Announce plan to dev@ list |
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2. |
Review/Resolve Outstanding Bugs |
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3. |
Update Release Notes |
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4. |
Check Dependencies |
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The Commons Preparation Guide is a helpful preparation backgrounder, but Commons uses the "beta/release-candidate/final" process.
Likewise, the HTTPD Release Guidelines is a helpful "overall process" backgrounder, but HTTPD does not use a test-build stage.
External Dependency versions for this release:
Dependency |
Version |
Status |
Used In |
Antlr |
2.7.2 |
Released |
Struts Validator |
Bean Scripting Framework |
2.3.0 |
Released |
Scripting |
Commons BeanUtils |
1.7.0 |
Released |
core (ActionServlet, configuration, DynaActionForm) |
Commons Chain |
1.1 |
Released |
core (RequestProcessor) |
Commons Digester |
1.8 |
Released |
core (ActionServlet, configuration) |
Commons FileUpload |
1.1.1 |
Released |
Struts Upload |
Commons IO |
1.1 |
Released |
Required by Commons FileUpload |
Commons Logging |
1.0.4 |
Released |
core (logging all over) |
Commons Validator |
1.3.1 |
Released |
Struts Validator |
Jakarta Oro |
2.0.8 |
Released |
Commons Validator |
Testing Checklist
Testing Summary
Description |
Completed |
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1. |
Run Unit Test targets |
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2. |
Run Cactus Tests (see below) |
NA |
3. |
Play test applications (TC 5.5.x) |
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Note: Cactus tests are not working and have been moved to the sandbox.
Test Build Checklist (A)
See also Commons Step-by-Step Guide
Description |
Completed |
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A0. |
Update all pom.xml files to omit "-SNAPSHOT" |
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A1. |
Tag release in svn: STRUTS_1_3_10 |
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A2. |
Check out a clean copy using the tag created in A1 and see StrutsMavenRelease |
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A3. |
Deploy Test Build to people.apache.org: /www/people.apache.org/builds/struts/m2-staging-repository |
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A4. |
Upload distributions to people.apache.org:/www/people.apache.org/builds/struts/v1.3.x |
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A5. |
Refresh default website at /1.x and create archival copy at /1.3.10 |
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A6. |
Update all pom.xml files to "1.3.11-SNAPSHOT" |
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A7. |
Create a new JIRA version level (1.x next) |
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A8. |
Announce the Test Build on dev@ only |
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A9. |
Post release-quality vote on dev@ list |
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Vote (A)
3 +1 GA binding (Joe, Paul, Henri)
1 +1 Beta binding (Niall)
Vote (B)
General Availability Checklist (C)
Description |
Completed |
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C1. |
Update top-level website: index.html, download pages, menus |
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C2. |
Copy the assemblies to www.apache.org/dist/struts |
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C3. |
Post an announcement to lists and website |
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