On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:47:53 +0200
Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Niklas Gustavsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Julien Vermillard
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   
> >> Yes, very true, the problem is for producing all the artifact,
> >> actually it's a few hours (last time it took me half a day) for
> >> generate and verify everything (signature files, reports,
> >> binaries, etc..). 
> >
> > Yeah, it's a pain. However, since we need to review them before the
> > release, it's probably better for one person to go through the
> > process rather than all voters.
> >   
> IMHO, we should do what is necessary to get the candidate release
> being testable :
> - rev number given
> - binary prepared
> - branch created
> 
> But when  it comes to signature, reports, etc, this is a little bit 
> overkilling. If the release is not done correctly, because we have 
> produced the wrong signatures, then we do another release. As soon as
> we are able to test the binaries, we should be ok.
> >   
> >> Perhaps we should do a two stage vote, one for saying current
> >> branch is ok for releasing, then if it's accepted, someone do the
> >> tedious release dry-run job, and a second vote for reviewing the
> >> related artifacts. 
> >
> > I don't think we need a formal +1/0/-1 vote for the first decision,
> > a discussion thread would probably be sufficient.
> >   
> I agree. Or we would soon vote to launch a vote :)
> 

I'm trying to do a dry run release for creating tarballs and not
snapshot jars. There is this kind of feature in maven ?
Because simply running "mvn -DdryRun=true release:prepare" doesn't
create the jar.
Any idea ?

Julien

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