On 31 March 2011 12:08, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And then you need to check the hashes and sigs again since you are >> now working with downloaded copies of the files that we voted on. >> Seems much easier and more correct to me to just scp the files to >> p.a.o., let people vote on them and *move* exactly those files to >> /dist. > > You don't get the point of Nexus and the maven-release-plugin, Phil. > The point is that these files (hashes and sigs) are already created, > ready to use and, indeed, will be simply moved to /dist, just as you > are suggesting.
Does the release plugin move the files from the staging directory to /dist then? Or does it move the RM's copies of the files to /dist? > >> Sorry, I don't buy that. The tars and zips need to "live" in >> /dist. The maven artifacts need to make their way to the maven >> mirrors. Having a "staging" repo where we can inspect the maven >> bits before they get pushed out is great (though I think our homes >> on p.a.o are fine for this). Why can't we just push files directly >> there using scp or Ant tasks and then "promote" them to the rsynch >> repo using a little script including commands like those in step 3 >> of http://commons.apache.org/releases/release.html? > > As I said: Your "little script" would simply be duplicating the > maven-release-plugin. Which is in no way "little". --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org