This pages plans and list the task which must be done to make the 1.5.3 release.
Release plan
We should list here items which should go into this release, since we didn't really plan for this release, there is nothing to say here.
Release tasks
Tasks |
Description |
Comment |
Responsible |
Done |
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Elect a release manager |
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William is the RM for this release |
yes |
Create a jira issue for the release |
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Release Manager |
yes |
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Asks on dev list to pick up tasks here |
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Release Manager |
yes |
Update the README file |
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William |
yes |
Create the test plan |
|
William |
yes |
|
Prepare jira for the release |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Update the jira version in the pom file |
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Jörn |
Yes |
Ensure you can build with Java 5 |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Do a trial build with -Papache-release |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Create release candidate 1 and announce |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Successful release vote on the opennlp-dev list to release |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Write release announcement |
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William |
Yes |
Ask for release announcement review |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Close the succesfull release vote |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Add the distribution to the web site |
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Jörn |
Yes |
Update version on maven dependency page |
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Jörn |
Yes |
Upload the documentation |
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Jörn |
Yes |
Promote the maven staging repo |
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Jörn |
Yes |
Add release news item to web site |
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William |
Yes |
Send announcement mail |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Update Jira version info |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Close release jira issue |
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Release Manager |
Yes |
Release announcement mail
Please write the release announcement here, so it can be reviewed
by the team.
Announcement:
The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.3 of Apache OpenNLP.
The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.
It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging,
named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution.
The OpenNLP 1.5.3 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page:http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi
The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details:http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html
This release contains a couple of new features, improvements and bug fixes. The CLI
has been improved for a better consistency. Now the tools supports extensions that
can be configured from the model, including customized context generators and
validators.
Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:
- Porter Stemmer tool
- L-BFGS parameter estimation
- Improved documentation
- Fine-grained POSTagger evaluation report
- Improved support to load user provided feature generator and context validation
classes from OSGi environment
A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes.
For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES
file included in the distribution.
--The Apache OpenNLP Team