On 2011-08-11 08:22-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > I apologise for this. If I had known how much chaos getting rid of the > ChangeLog file was going to cause I would have just left it alone, or > overwritten it with the ChangeLog.release file.
Hi Hazen: I believe no apologies are necessary for the filename change. Such changes are often desireable and should be expected. Of course, there are build system implications (I think that is what caught you) and packaging implications (what caught Andrew) that need to be worked through. But that is just part of the deal and why it is so important to do complete testing of the release tarball before it is released and similar caution by packagers is obviously necessary as well. I suggest to avoid situations like this again, that you reorganize the procedure in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook such that all changes and testing are done with trunk. Then once trunk is absolutely perfect and complete including all ChangeLog.release and www changes, then commit all changes for trunk, svn cp trunk to tags with zero further changes to that tagged area so it is absolutely consistent with trunk. Then create the release tarball from that tagged release area, unpack that tarball somewhere, and do complete testing of it to be sure all is well before actually releasing that tarball. This outlined double-checking procedure is a bit more trouble, but it should give you more peace of mind and prevent you having to replace release tarballs at SourceForge in the future. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
