Sounds like best plan ever. Using the same PC by everyone is awesome! On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 8:39 PM Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com wrote:
> A big +1 from me! > > Looking forward! > > > On Feb 5, 2019, at 9:34 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We are coming up on 3 months since 0.9.4. I have finished the changes > to get production Royale modules to work in Tour De Flex. Lots of other > good changes have been contributed. > > > > There were emails around the 0.9.4 release about others stepping up to > cut the next release, but that hasn't happened. I tried and failed to get > Apache Infra to allow us to run our release packaging on the Jenkins > servers. They felt there were too many security concerns with having the > servers push changes to Git and PGP sign artifacts. > > > > However, we MUST find a way for other RMs to be successful. There is no > way I should or want to be the only RM. But I have an idea that involves > creating a long list of Jenkins jobs on my CI server that add up to the > release. The RM would log into Jenkins and run some job titled "Apache > Royale Release Step 1", then wait for an email indicating that it completed > and follow instructions in the email, such as logging into the CI server > via Remote Desktop, opening a command prompt and running "git push" and > entering his/her username and password. Then run the next job and so on. > There will be a point where the RM has to download the build artifacts, > verify them, then PGP sign them, and upload them. That will be a likely > point of failure, but that step should be a single Maven command and thus > can be restarted until it finally succeeds. Then more Jenkins jobs will be > run. But if this works then folks won't have to setup their computers to > be an RM. > > > > So, prepare for lots of commits and reverts as I try to put this > together. I'm guessing it won't actually work until the last week of > February at the earliest so there is no big rush to get other stuff in for > this release, and if we get it to work, hopefully we'll release more often > with other folks being the RM. > > > > -Alex > > > >
