+1 to do something here! Google's Sheets seems like a good way to start? Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Steve Rowe <sar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now that the 6.0.1 release is out the door, I'm thinking of ways to > improve/simplify the release process. > > After many incremental automation improvements (thanks to all past RMs > who’ve worked on them!), the process is still lengthy, cumbersome, and > error prone. > > The documentation <http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseTodo> > attempts to balance completeness with brevity, and fails in both > directions, i.e. it's a (hopefully useful) compromise. > > I was thinking of an alternative documentation/form/to-do list thingy that > could provide not just examples, but exact command lines to run. Such a > sort of filled-out template thing (is it a “notebook”? not sure what to > call it) could provide a running reminder of where the RM is in the process > (e.g. checkboxes for items), along with space for notes for each item, and > could be scriptable, to fill out command lines with RC numbers and git > commit hashes, and to select the appropriate task branches (e.g. for > major/minor/bugfix releases). > > Does this sound to other past RMs like it would help? > > If so, does anybody know of an existing solution that would work? Or of > other projects that attempt something similar? > > I was thinking a spreadsheet would come pretty close, but not everybody > uses the same spreadsheet software, so sharing/maintenance would be a > problem. But maybe Google’s spreadsheet software (Sheets) would work? > > -- > Steve > www.lucidworks.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
