It would be less confusing in the future (and more in line with other PMCs I've seen) if you only increment the RC count for those that make it to a VOTE thread.
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mark Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > Well, the first 10 or so times that I tried to do "mvn release:perform", > the nifi-parent and nifi-nar-maven-plugin worked fine. For the nifi > application release, release:perform failed because it was attempting to > "batch upload" artifacts to some snapshot repository that I don't have > permissions for. > > I don't know if it's a feature of the maven release plugin or something in > the apache parent pom that I don't understand maybe? But when I named the > branch "nifi-0.1.0-incubating" and then named the SCM tag > "nifi-0.1.0-incubating-rc1" or "-rc2" or what have you, that happened. > Eventually, after many failures I found that if I name the branch > "release-nifi-0.1.0-incubating" instead, all was okay. I have no idea what > the naming of the git branch and the SCM tag have to do with each other (or > it's possible that there's something else going on that i don't understand > at all), but I just kept incrementing the RC number each time the build > failed. > > Thanks > -Mark > > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 12:51:48 -0500 > > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NiFi 0.1.0-incubating RC13 > > To: [email protected] > > > > As somebody who hasn't been paying that close attention, how did we get > up > > to RC13? That seems really high, and I don't feel like I would have > missed > > that many votes. > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Sergio Fernández <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >> 2) Also related with the source distribution, but also a personal > opinion, > >>> I think such kind of releases with different versioning schemes make > >>> developers' life much harder. For instance, this is what I needed for > >>> building the releases from the source code repository: > >>> > >>> git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-nifi.git > >>> nifi > >>> cd nifi > >>> git checkout 37732bddcfcb2affcba1f3b4a9e3dd5ebd7b5a30 > >>> cd nifi-parent/ > >>> mvn clean install > >>> cd .. > >>> git checkout 1fc8453b36c1a1d600a911668f10249cf1e52ea7 > >>> cd nifi-nar-maven-plugin/ > >>> mvn clean install > >>> cd .. > >>> git checkout 65a07b6b634e04f44b5b89bfaf95e0ff35c3c68c > >>> cd nifi > >>> mvn clean install > >>> > >>> which is not very convenient... > >>> > >>> > >> > >> I believe the working assumption has been that normally we won't be > doing a > >> nifi-parent or nifi-nar-maven-plugin release. > >> > >> -- > >> Sean > >> > > -- Sean
