At 01:30 PM 6/13/01 -0400, Berin Loritsch wrote:
>I set up a text Announcement generation file that takes care
>of sub-projects, and incorporates the "Changes" from the
>changes.xml files. It still requires manual editing once
>it is generated due to text wrapping issues.
excellent!
>I need some Ant experts here:
>
>*) I need to reformat text in the Announcement file
> to keep everything within 70-80 columns.
Theres no task for that _ I guess we would have to write our own.
>That way, after I manually sign the archives and scp them
>up to jakarta.apache.org, I can invoke ./build.sh announcement
>and auto email the announcements to the appropriate lists.
>The first task is going to be somewhat more troublesome
>than the second task.
It would be preferrable in my opiniion to hand check announcements first -
so perhaps the mailing should be a separate task from anouncement creation? ;)
>There are some things at this point that simply cannot be
>automated--and due to security concerns I am not sure we
>should automate them. Specifically I am referring to the
>signing and uploading of the archives.
agreed. I wouldn't mind tasks to do them. So you could go
> build.sh distributions
...do manual checking here...
> build.sh sign-distributions
> build.sh verify-distributions
> build.sh upload-distributions
Cheers,
Pete
*-----------------------------------------------------*
| "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, |
| and proving that there is no need to do so - almost |
| everyone gets busy on the proof." |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
*-----------------------------------------------------*
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
