Starting with this release, the release engineer will also need all the proprietary jars and other materials, since we now build the proprietary connectors. I can't check these in but I am sure we can come up with a way you can "borrow" them. Please let me know when you are ready.
Karl On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I checked in my scripts into: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/release-scripts. > > Once you read the Apache instructions, you might want to look at my > scripts to see how they fit in. Essentially, they build the release > candidates, sign them, and upload them (hardwired to go to my account > on people.apache.org, unfortunately - which I need to fix). > > Thanks, > Karl > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Great, and thanks for volunteering! >> >> The first thing to do create your key and add it to the KEYS file in >> the project (if not already there), and add it to the Web of Trust. >> The necessary steps are listed here: >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing >> >> I urge you to follow these instructions carefully; getting this right >> is the hardest part of becoming a release engineer. ;-) >> >> The second part involves the release itself. I have a number of >> Windows scripts that are useful for releases, which I will get into >> some kind of order and commit to svn. You will probably want to >> create Linux equivalents. >> >> Please keep me informed as to how it is going. >> >> Karl >> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Shinichiro Abe >> <shinichiro.ab...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> I want to volunteer to be Release Manager for 0.5-incubating. >>> I use Mac OS, but please teach me some ways if I can work. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Shinichiro Abe >>> >>> On 2012/03/14, at 8:44, Karl Wright wrote: >>> >>>> Hi fellow developers, >>>> >>>> Our next release date is rapidly approaching. We've been releasing a >>>> version of ManifoldCF at roughly the end of every quarter for a year >>>> now, and March 31 is a bit over two weeks away. >>>> >>>> There are currently three outstanding 0.5-incubating bugs. Two are >>>> Japanese localization tickets, and one is for the new Elastic Search >>>> connector. The latter is unassigned. Please finish these up as >>>> quickly as possible! >>>> >>>> Finally, I've been the Release Manager for all four releases up until >>>> now. Does anyone want to volunteer to be Release Manager for >>>> 0.5-incubating? I'd be happy to provide assistance and check in all >>>> of my Windows-based scripts. >>>> >>>> Karl >>>
