I guess I am able now to answer now all questions from other incubator release documentations, such as https://pirk.incubator.apache.org/releasing#apache-release-documentation Need to double check if their pom.xml do other tricks, we might overtake some of them.
Have a nice week-end and sorry for the noise ;) Svante ᐧ 2017-03-04 12:47 GMT+01:00 Svante Schubert <[email protected]>: > Short update and two release related questions in the end... > > *Short Update on Maven artifacts:* > > The Maven artifacts can be found now in a staging repository for testing: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/ > apache/odftoolkit/odftoolkit/ > and > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/ > orgapacheodftoolkit-1004/ > > so you might already test it by adding this either by adding the following > to your Maven settings: > <profile> > <id>odfstage</id> > <activation> > <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> > </activation> > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>staged-releases</id> > <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/ > orgapacheodftoolkit-1004/</url> > </repository> > </repositories> > </profile> > > or as you may test the latest SNAPSHOT (as it as the same binaries - only > README and CHANGES.txt were changed) > SNAPSHOTS can can found under > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/public/org/apache/odftoolkit/ > > (FYI: The problem I run into yesterday, was that Nexus did not find > yesterday my GPG key on a public server when I closed the repositiory, I > resent and tested this time availabiltiy.) > > *TWO QUESTIONS:* > *1) *In our current way the release process is done (and I understood > it), the release candiate gets an RC<Number> suffix, as RC1 now. > We would voted upon and now the crazy part starts, it will thrown away and > a new bundle would be deployed without the suffix as RELEASE. > Maven offers a plugin to support renaming, but do we allow to rename the > bundle on the server? > > *2) *If I understand John correctly the ZIP to vote on should be on > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/odftoolkit > > I was abel to access https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/ > via WebDAV, but only with read, but not write access. > sftp failed by authentication. > > Have a nice week-end, > Svante > > > > > ᐧ > > 2017-03-03 20:34 GMT+01:00 Svante Schubert <[email protected]>: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I started doing my very first release here at Apache and walked through >> many pages of documentation in the past two days. >> To be honest, somehow I was missing some kind of short description to do >> a release like painting by numbers. :) >> In the end, I realized that much of such a short release description I >> desired can be taken from our wiki release guide, which is still mostly >> valid: >> http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odftoolkit-release-guide.html >> I will update our Wiki after the release and come back with suggestions >> for improvement on the incubation pages to John. >> >> Our release candidate is ready as source directory: >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/odf/tags/odftoolk >> it-0.6.2-incubating-RC1/ >> but somehow I am missing the ZIP version, I got on my disc on the Apache >> server. >> Do I need to use 'svn cp? Does anybody know were this is described in the >> documentation? >> >> BTW as result from my trial and error of the past two days I need to >> remove: >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/odf/tags/odftoolk >> it-0.6.2-incubating/ >> and >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/odf/tags/odftoolk >> it-0.6.3-incubating/ >> Does anyone know how to do this? >> >> Aside of the missing ZIP, I am missing the Maven artifacts incluging an >> RC1. >> I have already logged into the Nexus repository manager and closed the >> staging repo, as described in our guide >> <http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odftoolkit-release-guide.html> >> on IV 4. >> Shouldn't the RC show up in one of the Maven groups: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/ >> like >> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/a >> pache/odftoolkit/ >> >> Finally, I would like to add a new page for our release at: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ODFTOOLKIT/releases >> Does a comitter need additional write access here? >> >> I plan to put the missing information in our documentation afterwards >> including suggest of improvements to John's guide. >> >> Thankful for any help! >> Svante >> >> >> >> 2017-02-02 15:07 GMT+01:00 John D. Ament <[email protected]>: >> >>> Releases should get staged on https://dist.apache.org/repos/ >>> dist/dev/incubator >>> Take a look atrelease-distributiojust >>> >>> replace "dist/release" with "dist/dev" >>> >>> I can update the incubator guides to clarify this. >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:04 AM Svante Schubert < >>> [email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > From a recent request on our user list >>> > < >>> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-odf-users >>> /201701.mbox/%3CEE561BBE-CF8C-4410-8B41-B1425E239E80%40upnix.com%3E >>> > >, >>> > I realized that people - oppose to me and some friends - are using >>> releases >>> > for testing and work with the ODF Toolkit. >>> > Therefore I finally have started work on doing a release. Yeah, sorry >>> for >>> > taking so long. >>> > >>> > One questions arises from >>> > http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odftoolkit- >>> > release-guide.html >>> > <http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odftoolkit-release-guide.html> >>> > In the past we uploaded release candicates to the >>> > http://people.apache.org/ server, >>> > where I do not find a way to login and upload. Where are usually >>> incubating >>> > release candidates being staged nowadays? >>> > >>> > Did not find anything instantly on >>> > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html >>> > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/release-java.html >>> > >>> > Thanks in advance, >>> > Svante >>> > >>> > PS: Is there any other way to solve the windows build node problem for >>> our >>> > project aside this issue: >>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13408 >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > ᐧ >>> > >>> >> >> ᐧ >> > >
