Hi Sigfried, I guess that's my point. We use M2. I bet 80% (if not more) of podlings use M2. There shouldn't have to be much thought involved to get an M2-based project released - a de facto guide should exist and podlings can deviate from it where allowed and where it makes sense for their project. Until that 'baseline' exists, we all feel unnecessary pain.
Thanks for your offer to help - I personally think there should be an incubator-wide editible wiki step-by-step guide that people can contribute to (via discussion) as necessary for M2 projects since that encompasses most Incubator projects. Any help in writing such a guide would be *immensely* appreciated! Thanks, Les On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Siegfried Goeschl <siegfried.goes...@it20one.at> wrote: > Hi folks, > > congratulation for getting the release out of the door ... :-) ... and shiro > folks (aka JSecurity) did an excellent job. > > Regarding the "no-frills step-by-step, no room-for-error release" > > +) it is difficult to write > > +) different projects have different tools to release (manual, Ant, Maven) > making the stuff even more difficult > > Maybe more stuff can be done to streamline your release process using M2 - > maybe I can lend you a hand > > Cheers, > > Siegfried Goeschl > > On 01.06.10 22:26, Les Hazlewood wrote: >>> >>> The download page links to reposity.apache.org. >>> >>> However repository.apache.org is not to be used for direct >>> publication to end users, it is for publishing to the main maven repo. >> >> This wasn't clear on the apache infrastructure page - it states that >> repository.apache.org is part of the distribution infrastructure. Now >> that we've been notified that this is not the case, we'll fix it as >> soon as possible. Thanks! >> >>> Also, the downloads page does not have a link to the KEYS file. Nor >>> does it have any documentation on how to use the sigs and hashes. >> >> We'll fix that. >> >>> >>> The downloads page should only link to the ASF mirrors, see for example: >>> >>> http://incubator.apache.org/photark/photark-downloads.html >>> >>> Also, there is no DISCLAIMER in any of the archive files. >>> AIUI, Incubator releases MUST contain a disclaimer: >> >> The branding link only specifies that podling websites must display >> that disclaimer. That exact disclaimer is the very first paragraph on >> the download page. AIUI, there is no mandate that a DISCLAIMER file >> must be included in the actual packaged distribution. Otherwise we >> assume the release would have been voted against. >> >> On a side note, we're doing our best to adhere to all requirements, >> and we're happy to do so. But it has been *incredibly* time consuming >> and frustrating to try to interpret what should be step-by-step >> courses of action to adhere to these requirements. >> >> Why isn't there a no-frills step-by-step, no room-for-error release >> checklist that podlings can follow to guarantee that all required >> criteria are met? It seems like such a checklist would be of the >> highest priority for the Incubator to ensure that personal >> interpretation is minimized or eliminated from the release process. >> >> This release management page [1] is incredibly long and full of policy >> and reasoning, which is all well and good if one wants to understand >> *why* these policies exist, but podlings really need a step-by-step >> *how-to* guide that references the 'why' document so we can service >> our communities as efficiently as possible. The 'why' guide is >> fantastic to read at our leisure, but the 'how' document would be far >> more useful to podlings when release time comes. >> >> My .02, >> >> Les >> >> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
