Hi Carsten, HttpComponents is also Maven2-based. Oleg has collected his actions for a release in our Wiki, you may want to have a look at that (and build a similar page for Felix?): http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-httpclient/HttpComponentsCoreReleaseProcess
It's way more than just calling Maven... >> Second step to release Commons would be a proper release with tarball /dist >> > stuff, and requires Vote of the PMC for legal reasons. > > Yes, this raises the question of how the release of commons should look > like. So far I thought about just releasing the pom and the jar - not > sure if we need a src and bin dist here? Well, you need a LICENCE and NOTICE file, and probably should have at least a minimal README. Keeping them hidden in the JAR will make the release different from all other distributables at Apache, right? Whether you want to release sources is of course a community decision. But since it's Open Source Software, you probably want to make the source for a particular release a little more accessible than by posting a link to a Subversion tag? The people that use the binary are supposed to look into the corresponding source when they hit problems. cheers, Roland PS: I'm only subscribed to the list digest, don't know whether the copy to the list will go through. Feel free to quote or forward this mail if it doesn't.
