> On 6 Jan 2016, at 23:59, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > Hello folks, > Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and good rest in passed weeks.
I got to spend the break cutting a new release of slider after some colleagues vetoed the previous RC. So, mixed. > > Any thoughts? Especially on schedule and list of patches that should be > included? > As a consequence of that little bit of work, I now have a little ant build file to do most of the drudge work https://github.com/apache/incubator-slider/blob/branches/branch-0.9/bin/release.xml http://slider.incubator.apache.org/developing/releasing.html This includes -running the maven tests and builds, with any extra cleanup beyond that which "mvn clean" does -validating checksums and signatures of the RC artifacts -copying the RC artifacts to the ASF distribution SVN repo, checking it in -checking that the RC artifacts can be downloaded, that the current git commit is pushed out and public -generating email messages calling for votes, and announcing the results If you do want to get into making monthly releases, I'd recommend automating everything you can —and using this as the starting place. Generating those email messages turns out to be very convenient. I'll probably join in with some automation of my publishing of the matching windows binaries to https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils
