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[Alexander Taler <dissent@xxxxxxxx>]

That is a very nice lise of improvements.

As I look at them I'll provide specific feedback where appropriate.

> 4), 5), 6) and 8) depend on changes in xmloutput plugin, some patches
> still need to be reviewed and pushed.

This is a pain, since installation needs to be done separately.
I'd suggest putting as much into this release as possible, to
hopefully avoid more changes in the near future.

Ideally bzr-eclipse will fail gracefully if an older version of
xmloutput is installed.

> I would be grateful for any comments and the information on what (and
> how) needs to be done to release a new version.
> I can host an update site, however, this will most likely require
> changes in Eclipse marketplace and other places that point to the
> current update site location.

I suggest a release process like this, for all three packages
together, bzr-eclipse, bzr-xmloutput, bzr-java-lib:

1] Identify functionality to include.  This should be everything
   done so far that's stable.  You've done a good job of that.
2] Choose a new version number for the release, and create a
   milestone in launchpad.
3] Go through all the bugs, fixing those we can and setting the
   appropriate target milestone.
4] Do a beta release.  (Beta is important because our testing and
   packaging is not well exercised.)
  4a] Update version in the code
  4b] Update documentation (changelog)
  4c] Build beta packages and make them available for download.
  4d] Update the project pages for the new version. 
  4e] Update bug reports to indicate that bugs are released.  (This
   notifies people and encourags them to try the beta.)
5] Fix any bugs that are reported against the beta packages.
6] Either do another beta release as in step 4], or follow those
   same steps for a final release.

Since this is a feature release, and the first one in a while, I
suggest for version numbers:

bzr-eclipse: 1.2.0
bzr-java-lib: 1.2.0 (Synchronise them, because they can be
                     installed together easily)
bzr-xml-output: 0.9.0 (jumping to 1.0.0 might be good too)

Beta versions could be:

1.2.0-beta or 1.2.0-rc1

Alex

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