Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Thanks for helping out jody, your qa on the build system was excellent > and very much needed. Sometimes I get so involved in battling with maven > that I forget to keep my head above water :) > Heh, please send more email - it took me an hour just to figure out where you had gotten stuck. > However, I think its time for some clean up on the build system. While > this workaround gets us a release its not really acceptable. Adrian has > volunteered to help us with releases, but because he is not a maven > expert he cant. > I was asking Richard about this, apparently the maven "release" plugin is *so* close to what we used to do by hand that he is in favour of using it. The part that failed was javadoc generation, something I am happy to skip until it is ready (and even then we only *really* need it for major releases).
So I think the current release process (now that we have rescued it from the 2.2.x branch) is fine, and javadocs can wait on volunteer time. Jody > -Justin > > Jody Garnett wrote: > >> Justin Deoliveira wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> After ripping out my hair for a few days I can still not get a release to >>> go. >>> >> Release is now gone :-) >> >>> Javadoc seems to be completley broken. >>> >> Agreed, I got a null pointer exception from our magic plug-in. I have >> updated the release instructions to *not* include javadoc generation >> until such time as it works. >> > > >>> problems with the following >>> modules: >>> >>> plugin/epsg-hsql >>> >>> >> did not find a problem. >> >>> ext/widgets-spring >>> >>> >> did not find a problem. >> >>> ext/go >>> >>> >> did not find a problem. >> >>> ext/shape >>> >>> >> Was missing an svn:ignore on a generated index file. >> >>> And there could be more, I gave up after 4 errors. So we are stuck without >>> javadocs, and if we want a release we have to manually do everything, >>> which is a pain. >>> >>> >> Ended up reading the release:perform instructions, by default this goal >> does "deploy" and "site-deploy". The wiki has been updated >> with an example showing how to get it to do only "deploy". >> >>> I will not have any more time to put toward this until next week. I should >>> also note that GeoServer is not making it project policy to release >>> against official geotools releases due to the overhead of releasing >>> geotools and not having a working release process. >>> >>> >> Please make use of yesterdays release, geotools needs to (and will fix) >> the overhead of making a release. I would like to set things up so >> projects like uDig and GeoServer can ask for a release given one weeks >> notice and expect to see results. >> >> With respect to the "larger" problem of why the release process was broken. >> - QA tools added to the build chain, and only tested for maven install >> (rather then full release process) >> - files left on the 2.2.x branch that were needed for assembly of >> release artifacts >> - focus on javadocs destracted from real need to produce results >> - lack of communication (both wiki instructions and email on release >> progress) >> >> I am sure we can do better next time :-) >> Jody >> >> PS. I am working on a steering document that I will try and share with >> the list shortly, feedback from the geoserver community in terms of >> expectations is important and needed. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> Geoserver-devel mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel >> >> !DSPAM:1004,451c109828272081064789! >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
