Thanks for the clarification JB. In the projects I’ve been involved with, I’ve 
not seen that practice.

As long as the resulting release ends up on dist.a.o I don’t think it’s a 
problem.

-Taylor


> On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:49 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Taylor,
> 
> Just to be clearn, in most other projects, we stage the distributions on 
> repository. We upload the distro and signatures to dist.apache.org only when 
> the vote passed.
> 
> Basically, the release process I talked with Davor (and that I will document) 
> is:
> - Tag and stage using mvn release:prepare release:perform
> - Close repo
> - Start vote
> - If passed, forward vote to incubator
> - If passed, close repo
> - Upload distro to dist
> - Announce the release (mailing lists, website)
> 
> It's based on what I do in Karaf, ServiceMix, etc.
> 
> Regards
> JB
> 
> On 06/08/2016 02:39 AM, P. Taylor Goetz wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, is there a reason for distributing the release on 
>> repository.a.o vs. dist.a.o?
>> 
>> In my experience repository.a.o has traditionally been used for maven 
>> artifacts, and dist.a.o has been for release artifacts (source archives and 
>> convenience binaries).
>> 
>> I'd be happy to help with documenting the process.
>> 
>> I ask because this might come up during an IPMC release vote.
>> 
>> -Taylor
>> 
>>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Davor Bonaci <da...@google.com.INVALID> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi everyone!
>>> We've started the release process for our first release, 0.1.0-incubating.
>>> 
>>> To recap previous discussions, we don't have particular functional goals
>>> for this release. Instead, we'd like to make available what's currently in
>>> the repository, as well as work through the release process.
>>> 
>>> With this in mind, we've:
>>> * branched off the release branch [1] at master's commit 8485272,
>>> * updated master to prepare for the second release, 0.2.0-incubating,
>>> * built the first release candidate, RC1, and deployed it to a staging
>>> repository [2].
>>> 
>>> We are not ready to start a vote just yet -- we've already identified a few
>>> issues worth fixing. That said, I'd like to invite everybody to take a peek
>>> and comment. I'm hoping we can address as many issues as possible before we
>>> start the voting process.
>>> 
>>> Please let us know if you see any issues.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Davor
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam/tree/release-0.1.0-incubating
>>> [2] https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-1000/
> 
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> jbono...@apache.org
> http://blog.nanthrax.net
> Talend - http://www.talend.com

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