I'm getting ready to upload a beta build of the 10.4 release to people.apache.org, but I'm a bit unsure about exactly what I should upload.
Initally I thought that building a snapshot (as described here http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbySnapshotOrRelease#head-ca6374d27cdfcc7180a5c6d88505574d049bdc18 ) was the right thing to do, but now I'm wondering if it rather should be as close to a release candidate as possible, but without the beta flag? When I look at the instructions for building a snapshot vs building a release, the only difference I see is that for the RC you also do 'ant publishedapi' and 'ant sign' For a release candidate the instructions tell you to "copy the files from tools/release to your public_html directory on people.apache.org." Is this true for a beta build as well? I noticed that after running 'ant snapshot' I have a top-level directory called snapshot containing the following: -rw-r----- 1 clustra 9956184 Mar 14 11:20 db-derby-snapshot-10.4.1.0-637024.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 clustra 10148714 Mar 14 11:20 db-derby-snapshot-10.4.1.0-637024.zip -rw-r----- 1 clustra 11360730 Mar 14 11:20 db-derby-snapshot-debug-10.4.1.0-637024.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 clustra 11551758 Mar 14 11:20 db-derby-snapshot-debug-10.4.1.0-637024.zip -rw-r----- 1 clustra 3090051 Mar 14 11:20 derby_core_plugin_10.4.1.637024.zip -rw-r----- 1 clustra 50 Mar 14 11:20 maintversion.properties is this sufficient for a beta build? I tried searching the mail archives to see what was done for previous releases and I found emails containing urls to directories holding beta builds, but those directories were all long gone. So I don't know what they once contained... Any advice here would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- Dyre Tjeldvoll
