sebb wrote:
> On 29/03/2010, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:40 PM, henrib <hen...@apache.org> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > I've used the http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CreatingReleases procedure to
>>  > release JEXL-2.0 (from Windows, not working on Unix/Mac) and I'm trying to
>>  > reuse it for JEXL-2.0.1.
>>  >
>>  > It appears 'mvn -Prc release:perform...' no longer generates the expected
>>  > artefacts.
>>  > 'mvn -Prc release:prepare' happily builds commons-jexl-2.0.1-RC1.jar and
>>  > tags COMMONS_JEXL_2_0_1-RC1.
>>  > 'mvn -Prc release:perform...' insists on creating commons-jexl-2.0.jar
>>  > instead of commons-jexl-2.0.1-RC1.jar .
>>  > The assembly/{bin,src}.xml seem normal, the pom.xml specifies
>>  > <commons.release.version>2.0.1</commons.release.version> and
>>  > <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>.
>>  > Tried on WinXP & OS X on a fresh m2 repository, same result, no success.
>>  >
>>  > Am I missing an obvious step / doc / procedure ?
>>  > Could this be an undetected "regression" (may be through 
>> commons-parent-14)
>>  > ?
>>  >
>>  > IMHO, our community would benefit from finishing the (designed to be)
>>  > automated and reliable publishing process described in the Wiki. 
>> Especially
>>  > since the manual procedures (
>>  > http://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.html and
>>  > http://commons.apache.org/releases/release.html ) are complex and appear 
>> to
>>  > focus on ant / maven-1 projects. This likely would allow faster/smaller
>>  > release cycles and more lively projects.
>>
>>
>> IMO you should use the manual process - its not that complex and you
>>  would have had far less trouble than all the struggling you've been
>>  doing with the release plugin. Also the release plugin only does part
>>  of the release process and still leaves a whole load to do manually -
>>  so the release plugin isn't really saving you much anyway.
>>
>>  1. Update the version number to 2.0.1 in the pom.xml and commit the change
>>  2. Do a subversion update
>>  3. Tag Jexl RC1
>>  4. Check out the Jexl RC1 tag
>>  5. run "mvn -Prc install" on the RC1 checked out code - this creates
>>  artifacts, signs and checksums in your local m2 repo
>>  6. run "mvn site" to generate the site (just for review)
>>  7. Upload the RC1 artifacts and site for review to your ASF dir on
>>  people.apache.org
>>  8. Call VOTE
>>  9. Copy maven artifacts to
>>  
>> http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository/org/apache/commons/commons-jexl/2.0.1
>>  10. Update maven-metadata.xml  (and re-create md5 & sha1 checksums)
> 
> What has to be changed here?

You need to add the new release to the versions list.

> 
>>  The above is just what replaces the maven release plugin - you also
>>  need to do the other stuff in the release guide manually whichever way
>>  you do it
> 
> Does this mean that the "release" profile is no longer needed in the parent 
> pom?
> 
If some people still use the release plugin, we need to keep that, I
think.

Phil
>>  Niall
>>
>>
>>  > Anyone else also interested by the topic? I'm no maven plugin expert but
>>  > will try to help, test and learn if shown the way.
>>  > Best regards,
>>  > Henrib
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