Hmmm... Ok, I think it will take some time to understand these for some time. Maybe we should put this milestone off for serveral days before I understand all the process.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mark Hindess <mark.hind...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > In message <aanlktimb6ffnvpgmstycklxmnm5znmmeksxjopxs6...@mail.gmail.com>, > Ray Chen writes: >> >> Hi Mark, >> Does release manager must be a PMC? > > No. See: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#release_manager > >> If not, maybe I can take the responsibility. > > That would be great. > >> However, I don't know much about how to do it, I think we need some >> transferring work. > > Ask here if you have questions. My activity as release manager for > previous releases was something like ... > > Suggest dates, announce freezes, encourage people to do testing and > move things along a bit when people send test results, work to resolve > release critical issues, produce signed source artifacts, start a vote, > conclude the vote and produce signed binaries. > > The scripts I use to create linux source and binary artifacts are in svn > at: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/harmony/standard/tools/release > > I do the equivalent manual process for both windows platforms. > > The last crucial part is populating the /dist/ tree for mirroring. > You need to be careful doing this so as to avoid messing up lots of > mirrors. I tend to make the tree elsewhere then check that it matches > the size/shape of the previous release tree before using rsync to put > it in to /dist/. > > Just ask if you have question about any of the process. > > Regards, > Mark. > > > -- Regards, Ray Chen
