I need to have Matt start writing my emails. What he said! ;) I'm too impatient to be so eloquent.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Emmanuel, > IMO this goes beyond the SCM question. Commons releases are painful > (you've just been through the process; do you disagree?) and I submit that > this fact is the reason it takes so long for any of us to muster up the > courage to commit himself to diving into that process with no real idea > when he'll emerge. Such a project would allow us to generalize and work > out the various "parts" that might be relevant to any Commons project and > could then serve as a cookbook to show how to address various situations. > > Matt > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Le 10/10/2013 17:24, James Carman a écrit : >> > Why don't we create a real project that we can cut real releases on to >> > test our release procedures? Perhaps we can set it up so that it >> > doesn't sync with central and just gets staged locally. This way, we >> > can test out changes to the release process and see how they work. >> > Also, a new release manager can play around with that project and get >> > it right before diving into the real work. >> >> I'm not sure to see the need for this. There is no doubt Git is suitable >> for releasing our components. I just walked down the release process for >> JCI and besides for tagging I didn't have to interact much with SVN (I >> didn't use the Maven release plugin). >> >> With Git you would just have to create a branch, and push a commit that >> changes the version (1.0-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0). The rest of the procedure is >> the same. >> >> Emmanuel Bourg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
