Hi, On 11/27/2012 09:18 AM, Vincent Massol 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
As far as I understand, the scripts are in a git repo already, at any rate there are so many things which can go wrong along the way that I think we'll always have to give the RM a lot of latitude to make decisions, including to modify the scripts during a release. In general +1 to everything. Thanks, Caleb > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
