> On Dec 28, 2017, at 4:05 AM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> one additional point: currently, for Maven itself, instead of adding new 
> Maven-specific ReleasePhase(s) to the default configuration, or configure 
> them in 
> our parent pom (I'm not sure documentation on how to do that is available: I 
> could not find it), we chose first to create a separate "dist-tool" to check 
> consistency of what is currently published in misc places and provide some 
> commands to fix when an inconsistency is found.
> 
> This happens through daily reports done by a Jenkins job [1]:
> - distribution area vs Maven Central [2] 
> - version from Maven site vs Maven Central [3]
> 
> We did not produce any release nor made it really configurable for 
> conventions 
> different from Maven ones (like Common's -src & -bin), but at least there is 
> a 
> configuration file to define artifacts to check [4]

Interesting. Thanks,.

-Rob

> 
> HTH
> 
> Hervé
> 
> 
> [1] https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/job/dist-tool-plugin/
> 
> [2] https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/
> dist-tool-check-source-release.html
> 
> [3] https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/
> dist-tool-check-index-page.html
> 
> [4] https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/
> dist-tool.conf.html
> 
> Le mercredi 27 décembre 2017, 23:32:49 CET Rob Tompkins a écrit :
>> Stephen,
>> 
>> I can’t thank you enough for your reply. I’ll take your suggestions and
>> continue to sandbox around using the maven-release-plugin as a guideline.
>> 
>> All the best and happy holidays,
>> -Rob
>> 
>>> On Dec 26, 2017, at 5:27 AM, Stephen Connolly
>>> <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:> 
>>> On Tue 26 Dec 2017 at 03:10, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@apache.org 
> <mailto:chtom...@apache.org>> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> Pardon, maybe this should have gone to your @user list, but why not ping
>>>> the dev crew. I’ve been playing around the ideas surrounding our fairly
>>>> manual release process for the components in Commons, and I was hoping
>>>> for
>>>> some insights.
>>>> 
>>>> Scripting the version changes isn’t really that big of a deal for us, and
>>>> that I can manage. But, when it comes to publishing our artifacts to the
>>>> apache nexus repository, and then separately publishing our -src and -bin
>>>> assemblies to the dev dist subversion repository (and consequently
>>>> deleting
>>>> those artifacts from nexus as they’re “attached” for the purpose of gpg
>>>> signing), I feel it a tad cumbersome.
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve fiddled around a little with the idea of detaching the -src and -bin
>>>> assemblies after gpg signing with some success, but then I have to delve
>>>> into the mechanics of publishing those up to the subversion repository,
>>>> and
>>>> clearly that problem has already been solved.
>>> 
>>> Is your problem you don’t want those going to Nexus staging but only to
>>> dist? Or is it that you want them *also* going to dist.
>>> 
>>> Personally... I see no reason to remove them from going to Nexus staging
>>> (in fact I have a background plan to add secondary signing support to
>>> staging... i’m Waiting to see the Nexus 3 staging APIs before attempting
>>> though. That would mean that the PMC would be able to *add* their GPG
>>> signature to the staged artifacts as part of the voting... in which case
>>> you’d want to hold off uploading to dist until *after* the vote so you get
>>> the full set of signatures)
>>> 
>>> If you want to upload a subset of attached artifacts to dist as part of
>>> the
>>> release, that seems much more tenable... just a derivative of the
>>> scm-publish plugin from what I can see.
>>> 
>>> So I find myself in the space of trying to shoehorn our process into its
>>> 
>>>> the main maven-release-plugin, which I’ve found a tad difficult, versus
>>>> writing our own release plugin, which feels like I would be duplicating
>>>> tons of code (which I don’t want to do).
>>> 
>>> So the release plugin is really two parts:
>>> 
>>> 1. A toolkit for writing release plugins
>>> 
>>> 2. An example that does the job for the requirements of the Maven TLP and
>>> has seemed “sufficient” for a lot of other people.
>>> 
>>> As such, if you have different needs, do not feel bad about having to
>>> encode differently... hopefully the toolkit half of the codebase is
>>> sufficient for you.
>>> 
>>>> I’m curious if you guys have any thoughts on the matter as I’ve been
>>>> playing around in the space for a little while now.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers and happy holidays from UTC-5,
>>>> -Rob
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