Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >We are getting close now. Following the svn commits and the > >etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt you see what i have been doing today. > > > >We are up to the stage of waiting for the mirrors to update. > > > >Would someone else please send the announcement. However, > >you need to wait until the website is updated and the > >distribution mirrors are ready. > > > See etc/announce.txt for a template to get you started. > > It will not be me, I'm about to leave the office for the day. Can > someone else in Europe please step up to do this.
Glad that no-one did, because our download page is broken. At least for me. It stops with an empty Options list. > >The mirrors part is easy, just watch http://www.apache.org/mirrors/ > >and decide when is a fair tradeoff. The main eu.apache.org mirror > >received it at UTC 02:00 (so 6.5 hours ago). > > > >The website part was tricky, but should now automatically happen. > >It is rsynced from people.apache.org every two hours. After the > >last run i did ssh people.apache.org and removed everything, > >then did a new 'svn co' of forrest/site repository. So on the > >next run we should have our shiny new website. That should be > >around one hour away. > > Removed *everything*. Does that mean the plugin docs as well? These are > deployed separately. I thought that they got 'svn commit' to the forrest/site repository which got replicated on the server. Not all plugin docs were deployed to their new location before i started and it looks like the same set now. > I'll ensure these are OK during the afternoon (I'm at a clients but > typing "ant deploy" now and again shuldn't be a problem for me. > > >There are a few other things to finish off in RELEASE_PROCESS.txt > >Can someone else do those, e.g. Jira needs tweaks. > > Again, I can't do this today. Can someone else find half an hour to > finish off? It seems not. > >I am away out to dinner and cards tonight. Celebratration time. > > You deserve a good run at the cards table for all your hard work. Good luck. We did, thanks. -David
