I'm seeing a lot of complaining on these threads but no actual proposal. If the proposal is to move away from Maven/Nexus for a release for all of commons I'll vote -1. OTOH, If some release managers want to do the release some other way I'm not going to force them to use Maven/Nexus.
Ralph On Mar 30, 2011, at 6:57 PM, sebb wrote: > On 31 March 2011 01:38, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3/30/11 4:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I disagree with this. The most important artifacts are the >>>> zips/tars that go to dist/. These *are* the ASF release. Nexus >>>> makes it *harder* IMO to maintain provenance of these artifacts. >>> These artifacts are present in Nexus. Pulling them to a temporary >>> directory is quite easy with wget. >> And then you need to check the hashes and sigs again since you are >> now working with downloaded copies of the files that we voted on. > > Huh? > > If we create a script to move the files directly from Nexus staging to > dist/, surely there's no chance that the cp+rm will somehow mangle the > files? > >> Seems much easier and more correct to me to just scp the files to >> p.a.o., let people vote on them and *move* exactly those files to >> /dist. > > Which is much what happens with Nexus now, apart from the dist/ move > phase which is not yet automated. > >>> At which point I can see no >>> difference between your proposed solution and this one. And there's >>> nothing to do for all the other files that live in Nexus (and must >>> live, because Maven is just too important, whether we like it or not). >> Sorry, I don't buy that. The tars and zips need to "live" in >> /dist. The maven artifacts need to make their way to the maven >> mirrors. Having a "staging" repo where we can inspect the maven >> bits before they get pushed out is great (though I think our homes >> on p.a.o are fine for this). Why can't we just push files directly >> there using scp or Ant tasks and then "promote" them to the rsynch >> repo using a little script including commands like those in step 3 >> of http://commons.apache.org/releases/release.html? >>>> I also don't see why we *must* rely on proprietary software to >>>> manage replication. >>> I'm mostly with you on that. I strongly opposed choosing Nexus in >>> favour of Archiva for that very reason. But we have Nexus now and I >>> wouldn't want to have Commons a swimmer against the rest of the Apache >>> tide. >> Based on Mark's response, I don't think we are the only ones :) >> >> Phil >>> Jochen >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
