Hi Mouli,
Thanks for volunteering. Unfortunately, you need to be an Apache Tomcat
committer to be a release manager and committership is something that
needs to be earned on merit. That said, it isn't too to become a Tomcat
committer.
If you'd like to become a committer, the first thing you'll need to do
is clone the Tomcat git repo build, Tomcat and run the unit tests. Once
you have confirmed your development environment is working then you can
start working on bug fixes and/or enhancements.
Generally, things work best if you work on an area that interests you
but if you wanted a suggestion of where to get started then I'd suggest
this enhancement request:
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62072
There is a big hint on how to approach this in comment 4.
If you need any help along the way, just ask.
Mark
On 13/05/2021 08:25, I. V. Chandra Mouli wrote:
I can volunteer for this Please let me know the process.
Thanks,
Mouli.
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On 13/05/2021 00:59, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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So, who'd like to volunteer?
Long ago I threatened to RM for the 8.5 line and never followed through.
I'd love to be able to get things working on MacOS if at all possible.
Otherwise, I can build a Linux or Win10 environment in a Virtual
Machine for everything.
Can you devote some time to working with me to bash-through the
initial setup?
Sure. Thanks for volunteering.
Thinking about this some more, the code signing part is a lot easier to setup
on Windows because of doing the signing of the Windows binaries.
It should be possible on other operating systems but I suspect getting that
working would take much longer than getting a Windows VM set up.
With that in mind if you want to get a Windows VM set up with:
- Java 8 (I tend to use latest OpenJDK release)
- Git client (with git on your path)
- subversion client (I find Tortoise svn works well)
- Ant (with ant on your path)
- GPG (with access to your signing key)
- checkout of 8.5.x
I'll get you set up on the DigiCert code signing system we use for releases. Expect the
usual "set up your account" emails from DigiCert.
Once your DigiCet account is set up you'll need to these instructions
(https://infra.apache.org/digicert-use.html) to obtain your credentials and set
up for signing windows binaries on windows.
Ping me when you have everything set up and you have "ant release"
working minus the code signing - or if you need a hand at any point.
The DigiCert system is under active development with new features being
delivered regularly so things might not match exactly with the instructions.
Ping me if you have any questions.
Mark
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