On Mar 30, 2011, at 13:24, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 March 2011 17:03, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/30/11 5:39 AM, sebb wrote:
>>> On 30 March 2011 08:01, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote:
>>>> Le 30/03/2011 03:36, Gary Gregory a écrit :
>>>>> Wait! I'm not done or I'm loosing my marbles...
>>>>>
>>>>> I followed the whole song and dance from:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus
>>>>>
>>>>> It's the last time I'll pick that route.
>>>> For what its worth, for math 2.2 I used a mix of Phil scripts for the
>>>> beginning and Nexus for the rest, using the wiki as a guideline. In this
>>>> case the process was a little convoluted, because we create both a
>>>> trimmed down version of the site to hold only the user guide and to be
>>>> put in the docs archives, and we create a complete site to be uploaded.
>>>>
>>>> For the last release candidate, it worked well. Phil asked me to
>>>> document it and extend the scripts if needed, and I forgot to do it in
>>>> time, sorry :-(
>>>>
>>>> The one thing I found cumbersome was that part of the process pushed
>>>> non-maven artifacts on Nexus, that had to be manually moved away.
>>>> Furthermore, these are what we consider here the real Apache artifacts
>>>> (i.e. the ones that are available in the download page, not the ones
>>>> that are at last published in maven repository).
>>> I asked about extending Nexus so it could handle non-Maven staging,
>>> and that did seem to be possible, but whether it will ever be
>>> implemented, I don't know.
>>>
>>> That would be ideal.
>>>
>>>> I also have some slight concerns using a proprietary product, but as it
>>>> secures some things as Sebb says, I can live with it.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to find some intermediate approach, extending Phil
>>>> scripts, pushing only the maven part on Nexus directly without having to
>>>> log on Nexus web interface ? The last part (not logging to close the
>>>> staging area) may reduce the safety we get and risk some spurious
>>>> publish as Sebb explained, but with several independent scripts, this
>>>> could leverage the risk.
>>> Separating the deployments of Maven and non-Maven artifacts might be
>>> possible, but I'm not sure I have enough Maven-foo to do it.
>>>
>>> It would mean removing the non-maven stuff from deploy, and using some
>>> other means to copy the non-maven stuff to a separate staging
>>> directory.
>>>
>> There is this cool command called "cp" that works very well.  There
>
> Does not work natively on Windows or various other OSes.

Cygwin is great for that. What other OSes?

>
>> is another one called "tar" and even one called "scp" ;)  If the
>> problem is that we want to be more paranoid than we are with the
>> mirrors for the maven stuff, why can't we just get access and copy
>> the files we want to put in the staging repo?  Or write a simple
>> script that moves the kind of thing that I have sitting now in
>> http://people.apache.org/~psteitz/pool-1.5.6-rc2/maven/
>> to the "staging repository" and another script or command that
>> "promotes" it.  It seems ridiculous to me that we need to introduce
>> a proprietary GUI tool to just move files on ASF hosts.
>
> Nexus does more than just move files around.
>
> It maintains the maven-metadata.xml file, and checks that the
> signature is correct.
> It also ensures that the file is uploaded to the correct directory
> based on the groupId.
> There are probably other features I have not encountered.
>
> If someone wants to spend time creating and maintaining an alternative
> tool, fine, but don't overlook the benefits that Nexus brings.
>
> At present I think it's great that I can do a "mvn deploy" and not
> worry that it might be published accidentally.
>
> Nexus makes it easy for non-Unix types to inspect the files and delete
> any that should not be there or upload others that are missing.
>
>> Phil
>>
>> Phil
>>>> Luc
>>>>
>>>>> I cannot seem to have published the Maven bits to Maven places. There is 
>>>>> no
>>>>> 1.5 here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-codec/commons-codec/
>>>>>
>>>>> Because it is not here:
>>>>>
>>>>> /x1/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository/commons-codec
>>>>>
>>>>> What does "Promote" out of Nexus do then?
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I copy the files to /www/
>>>>> people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository myself per
>>>>>
>>>>> http://commons.apache.org/releases/release.html
>>>>>
>>>>> under the section "3 Deploy Maven Artifacts"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or will that cause problem with work I did in Nexus (for the last time?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:15 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Commons Codec 1.5-RC1
>>>>> To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 March 2011 04:45, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/28/11 4:49 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
>>>>>>>> I am having a heck of a time pushing the release out.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I cannot seem to be able to create the sym links per the instructions
>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I cannot get the symlinks.sh script working. I copied it to my home bin
>>>>>>>> directory. When I invoke it, it is not found. Just running it from my
>>>>>>> home
>>>>>>>> bin w/o args does give me the usage I get:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You need to run it from the dist directory where the links are going
>>>>>>> to be created and you need to give it the release number.  See steps
>>>>>>> 1 and 2 here:
>>>>>>> http://commons.apache.org/releases/release.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Step 2 assumes that the tars and zips have somehow made their way to
>>>>>>> /www/www.apache.org/dist/commons/foo/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Step 1 provides instructions on how to move things there.  I think
>>>>>>> Nexus tries to do this moving for you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To get the symlinks created properly, you need to invoke symlinks.sh
>>>>>>> with the release number as its command line argument from
>>>>>>> /www/www.apache.org/dist/commons/foo/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For that to work, you have to have the script available and
>>>>>>> executable.  That should happen if you put it in your bin directory
>>>>>>> and do chmod +x on it.  Have a look at your .profile file (cat
>>>>>>> ~/.profile).  If it does not contain a line that looks something like
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$HOME/bin;
>>>>>>> export PATH
>>>>>>> then you need to add that line (maybe minus the games and X11R6
>>>>>>> stuff) or just copy a new .profile.   Let me know if you are having
>>>>>>> problems with this and I will help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sebb is right though that you should close the VOTE before moving
>>>>>>> stuff to dist/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for the detailed instructions. I am going to go through those
>>>>>> next.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I must have misunderstood the voting process, which I thought was, if all
>>>>>> goes well:
>>>>>> - Send a [VOTE] email (this thread)
>>>>>> - Wait 72 hours
>>>>>> - Send a [VOTE][RESULT] email:
>>>>>>
>>>>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201103.mbox/%3caanlktikgpm0lo-aoi8wfkjxznoxzodtgza2cwjdcq...@mail.gmail.com%3E
>>>>>> Is there a [VOTE][CLOSE] email that needs to go out as well after 72
>>>>> hours?
>>>>>
>>>>> No, but for some reason I did not see the [RESULT] e-mail - sounds
>>>>> like Phil did not either.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I can see that I should have mentioned the vote timeline in the [VOTE]
>>>>> email
>>>>>> as documented in http://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But, I used the [VOTE] email template from
>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus which contains no such text.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sigh, the release process is so obtuse with the mixture of Maven, UNIX,
>>>>>> Nexus, multiple instruction pages, and so on. It is quite discouraging 
>>>>>> and
>>>>> a
>>>>>> barrier to progress :(
>>>>> Patches welcome ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Phil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> symlinks.sh
>>>>>>>> symlinks.sh: Command not found.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sh symlinks.sh
>>>>>>>> symlinks.sh: 46: Syntax error: word unexpected
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I need some UNIX help ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [VOTE] Release Apache Commons Codec 1.5-RC1
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Tag:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/tags/commons-codec-1.5-RC1
>>>>>>>>> Site:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/codec/1.5/RC1/site/index.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Binaries:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-041/
>>>>>>>>> [ ] +1 release it
>>>>>>>>> [ ] +0 go ahead I don't care
>>>>>>>>> [ ] -1 no, do not release it because
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://garygregory.wordpress.com/
>>>>>>>>> http://garygregory.com/
>>>>>>>>> http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/
>>>>>>>>> http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://garygregory.wordpress.com/
>>>>>> http://garygregory.com/
>>>>>> http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/
>>>>>> http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
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