I see that
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/How+to+Cook+a+Release
does not contain many details on where/how to upload builds once we
reach (and it looks like we are almost there, thanks to everybody who
helped!) the Release Candidate stage.
Here are some notes based on past experiences (feel free to copy them to
the wiki as needed):
## 1. Files and folders structure
See http://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.1.3/ for an example.
Note in particular that we have:
source/ - more on this below
binaries/ - they do include SDK, but they do NOT include kid
You'll probably want to assemble a quick script to move things into the
right place. Then please copy it to
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/devtools/build-scripts/ (I wrote
a similar script but can't find it right now).
Note: we can't change the structure since our download pages assume it
is identical for any 4.1.x release.
## 2. Everything must come with hashes and signatures.
http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-signing
All files need:
- md5 hash as filename.md5
- sha256 hash as filename.sha256
- A detached signature as filename.asc see
https://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#openpgp-ascii-detach-sig
for details
Who should make the signatures?
- The Release Manager signs source
- Other packages are signed by the person who provided them
Again, script should be copied to devtools/.
## 3. How is the source code obtained?
It is *NOT* obtained via SVN export as one could imagine. You get it in
a source tree by running:
$ cd instsetoo_native/util
$ dmake aoo_srcrelease
I've modified it for 4.1.4 see
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127148 and also
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126605 so the output will not
be identical to 4.1.3 as some minor test files were not handled properly.
We still get the three formats (ZIP, gz, bz2). This will probably change
after 4.1.x as discussed a long time ago, but for 4.1.4 we should still
use the three of them.
## 4. How are packages uploaded?
It's going to be a huge SVN commit to the dev area. My experience from a
couple years ago:
- The SVN server has good reliability but it is slow, much slower than I
expected.
- First, assemble all the tree in one location. In my case, I had setup
a space on fast-connected server where people uploaded their builds.
This is the best option, otherwise people will have to wait for each
other and do a full checkout (slow and huge).
- Then structure files/folders as above
- Then do the SVN commit. Due to speed issues, I recommend to script
this and upload one language at a time - unless the SVN server speed has
increased dramatically, but still you need one minute to script it so
it's worth doing. In my case, the SVN server was reliable but the
gigantic SVN commit took something like 20 hours from a machine that had
no bandwidth problems; script it and be safe (even if I expect that
speed is better now).
Regards,
Andrea.
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