Hi Joan, Having done some work with the Windows build in the past, I'm happy to try to help with automating it. If you think there's anything I can do, maybe we could have a separate discussion on the steps needed to make it better.
Nick > On 16 Dec 2016, at 19:20, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Windows build process is not 100% automatable right now, nor > has it ever been. There's a bunch more work necessary to make that > happen. Ideally, someone would offer to help me with this. > > The actual *publish* of an approved final build should still be a > manually invoked process, especially because it requires individual > credentials to be used to push the release to the Apache mirrors, > and for the Windows binary, there is a manual Symantec signing > process (though I'm informed the latter can be automated through a > SOAP API [ugh]). We also need to manually say "this is the one" > after the lists have gone through acceptance testing. > > -Joan > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Robert Kowalski" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 1:55:45 PM >> Subject: [PLANNING] CouchDB 2.1 >> >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to test the waters regarding a CouchDB 2.1 release. Since >> 2.0 >> a few new features and many bug fixes have landed. >> >> I know its holiday season soon and I wanted to kick off the >> discussion >> about a release date for 2.0.1 or 2.1.0. >> >> One thing that worries me (correct me if I am wrong): I think >> releasing CouchDB depends much on Joan and Jan right now, which is >> bad >> (bus factor etc). >> >> I don't know much about the internals of the build process for our >> releases, but I would volunteer to automate the (jenkins?-)build for >> snaps. >> >> Best, >> Robert >>
