Hi Alan, some feedback inline:
> * Several steps have high latency; it may take 30min of work before > prompting > for a password. Using GPG agent or <gpg.passphrase/> in .m2/settings.xml works fine. It's what I'm doing in all Apache releases I'm doing. > * Problems with both his laptop and desktop; GCS wasn't working well on the > laptop preventing running tests. Maven extremely slow on his desktop, but > he > discovered a workaround in his configuration. Would have been nice to use > jenkins for most steps instead of relying on laptop/desktop > configurations. Not sure there, the release has to be done by the release manager IMHO. So, that's an environment issue, not a release issue. > * Many of the steps ran the same tests over and over. Sometimes tests were > flaky, so needed to restart a long process due to a test that had passed > earlier now flaking. Good point, definitely improvements on the tests to do (maybe better split between utests and itests). > * Robert was new to Nexus, so setting up permissions and navigating the UI > was > confusing. Not a release concern IMHO, Nexus is straight forward for release with staging repo. I think it's well explained in the release guide. > * Needed to rebuild the google cloud dataflow containers to get dataflow > working with the RC, and that ended up being a painful process. The github > sdk/python/container is part of the portability effort and should help > eliminate googlers needing to do steps like this with each release because > that container can be built externally. +1 > * Automated release notes were not seen as valuable due to limitations in > any > automated documentation. I guess you mean Release Notes available on Jira, so I agree, it's already easily generated. > * Missed a step of changing the java/python version numbers but was able to > fix that. Changing version numbers where ? Release plugin (in the prepare goal) already change the versions in the POMs (like a mvn versions:set). I guess you are talking about some other files ? Maybe those files could use the project.version from the pom ? > * Some copy/paste errors when creating the voting emails.> * Many steps > are not possible for non-committers. And it's normal per Apache rule. Regards JB -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
