Struts Taglib 1.3.1 Release

Info

Struts Release Guidelines 2. Signing Releases
3. Apache Mirroring Guidelines

Release Manager

The release manager is TBA

How to Help

Everyone in the Struts community, users, developers, and committers, are encouraged to test a release, report any issues, and post to dev@ any comments on the overall quality of the release.

To help everyone get started with Struts Taglib 1.3.1 (when it is available), here are the simplest installation instructions that can possibly work:

Download the Struts 1.3.1 distribution from http://svn.apache.org/dist/struts/taglib/v1.3.1/ (when it is available)
Extract subproject distribution to a likely location (\opt\struts-*)
Install Java and set JAVA_HOME
Install Maven and set MAVEN_HOME
Install the Cactus Plugins and Apache Tomcat
* http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsMaintenanceMaven
Change to the Struts Build folder (e.g., \opt\struts-build)
$ maven
Wait about five minutes for Maven to download and build everything ** If you see any error messages, see if they are known issues by comparing your log with ours at http://svn.apache.org/builds/struts/maven/trunk/nightly/logs/

Outstanding Bug Review

ID	Summary	Component	Status
35895	Attributes with <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue> in TLD p...	Custom Tags
38964	Postback Forms - Caching and Modules	Custom Tags

Preparation Checklist

	Description	Status
1.	Announce plan to dev@ list; link from roadmap page	_
2.	Review/Resolve Outstanding Bugs	_
3.	Update Release Notes	_
4.	Check Dependencies	_
5.	Update to version 1.3.1 project.xml, pom.xml	_

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
Commons BeanUtils	1.7.0	Released	core (ActionServlet, configuration, DynaActionForm)
Commons Chain	1.0	Released	core (RequestProcessor)
Commons Digester	1.6	Released	core (ActionServlet, configuration)
Commons FileUpload	1.0	Released	Struts Upload
Commons Logging	1.0.4	Released	core (logging all over)
Commons Validator	1.1.4	Released	Struts Validator
Jakarta Oro	2.0.8	Released	Commons Validator

Testing Checklist

Testing Summary

	Description	Completed
1.	Run Unit Test targets	_
2.	Run Cactus Tests (see below)	_
3.	Play test bundled applications (TC 5.0.x)	_

Cactus Tests

	J2SE Version	Tomcat Version	Status
1.	J2SE 1.3.1_04	Tomcat 4.1.30	_
2.	J2SE 1.4.2_07	Tomcat 4.1.30	_
3.	J2SE 1.3.1_04	Tomcat 5.0.28	_
4.	J2SE 1.4.2_07	Tomcat 5.0.28	_

Test Build Checklist (A)

Vote (A)

PMC Member

Quality

Voting thread is _

If release vote fails, including for a lack of quorum, remove from dist folder.

Point Release Checklist (B)

	Description	Completed
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B2.	Request new Bugzilla version level (1.3.1)	_
B3.	Update "Acquiring" page on website and Test Downloads	_

Vote (B)