Thx. I've gone ahead and added this to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/How+to+Cook+a+Release
where it belongs. > On Aug 5, 2017, at 1:13 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > I see that > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/How+to+Cook+a+Release > does not contain many details on where/how to upload builds once we reach > (and it looks like we are almost there, thanks to everybody who helped!) the > Release Candidate stage. > > Here are some notes based on past experiences (feel free to copy them to the > wiki as needed): > > ## 1. Files and folders structure > > See http://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.1.3/ for an example. Note in > particular that we have: > source/ - more on this below > binaries/ - they do include SDK, but they do NOT include kid > > You'll probably want to assemble a quick script to move things into the right > place. Then please copy it to > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/devtools/build-scripts/ (I wrote a > similar script but can't find it right now). > > Note: we can't change the structure since our download pages assume it is > identical for any 4.1.x release. > > ## 2. Everything must come with hashes and signatures. > > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-signing > > All files need: > - md5 hash as filename.md5 > - sha256 hash as filename.sha256 > - A detached signature as filename.asc see > https://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#openpgp-ascii-detach-sig for > details > > Who should make the signatures? > - The Release Manager signs source > - Other packages are signed by the person who provided them > > Again, script should be copied to devtools/. > > ## 3. How is the source code obtained? > > It is *NOT* obtained via SVN export as one could imagine. You get it in a > source tree by running: > $ cd instsetoo_native/util > $ dmake aoo_srcrelease > > I've modified it for 4.1.4 see > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127148 and also > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126605 so the output will not be > identical to 4.1.3 as some minor test files were not handled properly. > > We still get the three formats (ZIP, gz, bz2). This will probably change > after 4.1.x as discussed a long time ago, but for 4.1.4 we should still use > the three of them. > > ## 4. How are packages uploaded? > > It's going to be a huge SVN commit to the dev area. My experience from a > couple years ago: > - The SVN server has good reliability but it is slow, much slower than I > expected. > - First, assemble all the tree in one location. In my case, I had setup a > space on fast-connected server where people uploaded their builds. This is > the best option, otherwise people will have to wait for each other and do a > full checkout (slow and huge). > - Then structure files/folders as above > - Then do the SVN commit. Due to speed issues, I recommend to script this and > upload one language at a time - unless the SVN server speed has increased > dramatically, but still you need one minute to script it so it's worth doing. > In my case, the SVN server was reliable but the gigantic SVN commit took > something like 20 hours from a machine that had no bandwidth problems; script > it and be safe (even if I expect that speed is better now). > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org