[babel-dev] Babel Tools Release 0.9.0.B1 - almost there

[Stefan Strobl <stefan.strobl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

since I have now had the chance to document what we did yesterday (or at 
least the generic process behind), here's the update:

* Documentation: 
https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/tapiji/wiki/BabelToolsRelease (currently 
still in the EclipseLabs Wiki, should probably be moved to the 
Babel/Eclipse Wiki)
* We decided to try our release with a "beta" run -> e.g. not release 
0.9.0, but 0.9.0.B1 - this way we can still fix some bugs and iron out 
some of the edges of our release process
* the final release will be named 0.9.0.FINAL -> as 0.9.0 would be 
considered "older" than all previous releases (including the nightly 
builds).
* the branch rb-0.9.0 was created, all changes to versions etc were made 
there.
* the version 0.9.0.B1 was tagged with tag 0.9.0.B1 (duh)
* both branch and tag were pushed to origin (e.g. the eclipse git repo)
* any changes to the 0.9.0.FINAL release should be made on master, then 
merged into the release branch (please coordinate via this mailing list)
* master has been bumped to 0.9.1-SNAPSHOT
* quite a bit of work has gone into documenting stuff in our wiki... see 
for yourself: 
https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/tapiji/wiki/development (and 
subpages)

open issues
* currently the release CI build also publishes to 
build.eclipse.org/..../babel-tools-nightly -> far from ideal
* we still have to agree on where release artifacts are published to 
(download.eclipse.org ?) and if this happens manually (e.g. build 
publishes to staging and artifacts are then copied over directly on the 
server) or automatically
* how do we announce new releases on the project page?
* how do we create release notes, how much support is there from 
bugzilla. personally i would really prefer a solution that just involves 
listing all bugs with a specific version in bugzilla (also see my last 
post to this mailing list)

that's it for now... looking forward to your feedback!
regards
Stefan