On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Noorul Islam K M <[email protected]> wrote: > "Hyrum K. Wright" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Bonus points if somebody writes a script to do all this website update >> release magic for us. >> > > I am trying to understand the requirement. Can you please elaborate a > bit?
I was essentially bemoaning the fact that the release process still has a large number of manual tools. The creation of releases is pretty well scripted, but the other steps, such as gathering signatures, announcing, posting the tarballs for download, and update various links on the website, all still require a fair amount of manual intervention. I've been meaning to get around to adding more automation for months, but just haven't found the time (my excuse is that I've been waiting for the move to ASF distribution infrastructure for the 1.7 series). I suspect that there would be a fair amount of magic involved in some of these tasks, such as automatic website updating, but you're welcome to dive in a give it a shot. Best, -Hyrum PS - It looks as if you're trying to get involved in Subversion development, and are looking for a task to do. The best such list of tasks is the 'bite-sized' tasks in the issue tracker: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?component=subversion&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&keywords=bite-sized
