Hi Dyre,
I believe that the best distribution would be a release candidate with
the beta bit turned on. The snapshot machinery creates distributions
which don't include the user guides--at least that's how snapshots used
to work. I think that a beta test should verify that the release behaves
the way that the user guides say it should--so I would recommend
building a full candidate.
In general, the closer the beta is to a real release, the more feedback
you will get during the beta test. That should reduce the number of
release candidates you have to build later on.
Hope this helps,
-Rick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
Yes, please.
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,
