Good catches, Matt. Thanks!

On 24 July 2013 14:46, Matt Franklin <[email protected]> wrote:

> We should look into using the svn pub-sub staging area for releases (the
> dist area is required for approved releases already) rather than anything
> on people.apache.org


*Facepalm*

Yes, this is the recommended approach these days! ;)


> Assuming we are deploying to the Nexus Maven repository, we can have the CI
> engine deploy SNAPSHOTS to repository.apache.org.
>

"Snapshots" work also. ;) Just "release" is a very special word. We need to
be careful with it.


> We should document our release process on the website the first time we run
> through it [2] [3].
>
> [1] http://rave.apache.org/docs/governance/lazyConsensus.html (there is a
> comdev page, I just found this one first)
> [2] http://bval.apache.org/release-management.html
> [3] http://rave.apache.org/release-management.html


Here's another example:

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Release_Procedure

(I've been honing this document for the best part of a decade.)

-- 
NS

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