On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> Here are some notes I took while releasing XWiki 4.3 on how to improve the
>> release process:
>> 
>> * We need to automate the generation of the CLIRR report. This is what
>> takes the longest when releasing (not overall time but manual time
>> required). IMO this can be done relatively easily by creating a patch for
>> the CLIRR maven plugin itself to:
>> ** Add support for wildcards in the new <difference> syntax
>> ** Ensure that their report generation takes into account the
>> <justification> element
>> ** Possibly add a text report generation that we'll be able to copy paste
>> in our RN
>> 
>> * Remove PURL generation for Tweets
>> ** Tweets are ephemeral so no need to have permanent URLs
>> ** Tweet clients already do URL shortening
>> (It's complex to use the PURL UI too)
>> 
>> * Don't create RN summary for OW2, email and even blog post. This will win
>> some more time. Instead just link to the RN page which contains a summary
>> and all details. For example for the email it could be:
>> "
>> The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki
>> Enterprise <version>.
>> 
>> You can download it here:
>> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download
>> 
>> Make sure to review the release notes:
>> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki<short
>> version>
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -The XWiki dev team
>> "
>> 
>> * Put maven.xwiki.org:~/xwiki-release-scripts under Git and do a git
>> reset before the ow2 step to be sure to have clean scripts
>> 
> 
> I don't understand this part, they are in git.

Yes they are in git but not on maven.xwiki.org

-Vincent

>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent

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