Since we have an actual release now, should we make an announcement email on the gene...@logging.apache.org list? I can write up a blurb, but I'm not sure who can post to that list.
I've also updated the tag for the release appropriately(v0.11.0) -Robert Middleton On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:09 PM Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Log4j release-2.x branch is only there because master is > effectively the "release-3.x" branch right now. We forked the branch > to continue 2.x releases while we started making breaking changes in > the 3.x branch (mostly involving moving plugins around; the API is > still the same). > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 06:41, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de> > wrote: > > > > Guten Tag Ralph Goers, > > am Samstag, 22. August 2020 um 19:04 schrieben Sie: > > > > > I didn’t try to run the build from master. I checked out the > > > release tag. > > > > The site needed to be updated without new releases in the past > > already. I didn't see how this was possible without a branch, so > > simply created one and thought it was a good idea to have one for new > > releases as well. From what I seen, Log4j has a release-2.x branch as > > well. So it might perfectly be that I didn't even consider generating > > the site based on a release tag at all. > > > > > [...]I expected > > > to see the log4cxx release version in the pom on the release tag and > > > it wasn’t there. > > > > This heavily depends on how exactly Robert created the release and > > simply needs to be debugged further. The created scripts should have > > taken care of version numbers, but might not work properly under all > > conditions or whatever. The goal was that "release_prepare" should > > have created a branch and associated tags with correct numbers to base > > releases on. In the end, "changes.xml" wasn't properly updates as well > > for some reason. > > > > So either this needs to be debugged or, as has been discussed already, > > one needs to implement new release-handling without using MVN at all. > > Though I think fixing the existing problems and/or improve docs is the > > easier way forward right now. > > > > > Once a release tag is created no modifications can > > > be made so everything needs to be correct. In Log4j I only create a > > > release branch from the tag if a patch to that release is required. > > > To date, we have never done that. > > > > When I worked last on a release years ago, things were expected to get > > changed or simply didn't work for some reason and that's only easily > > possible with a release branch in my opinion. Manually creating > > branches on each and every RC didn't seem like a good way to me. > > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > > > Thorsten Schöning > > > > -- > > Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de > > AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ > > > > Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 > > Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 > > Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 > > > > AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln > > AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >
