On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: > Monday, September 25, 2017, 7:23:14 PM, Woonsan Ko wrote: > >> I'd like to volunteer for that. >> Assuming there's a voting process, I guess the release process will >> happen next week or afterward, right? > > The actual release yes, but the duty of the Release Manager is to take > care of the whole process. That's starting with checking if the thing > is ready and publishing it internally for a preview, then achieving > community consensus (which for us means a voting on dev@freemarker, > and if that passes then another voting on general@incubator), then > actually pushing the distribution. But > http://freemarker.org/committer-howto.html#making-releases describes > all these steps. (There are also official resources like > http://www.apache.org/dev/#releases and > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html, but the > point of the how-to is that you don't have to read them.)
I see. Thanks for the information! > > As you will note if you read the above, you will need a PGP signature > and certain rights to commit into some repos and to do things on > Nexus. So you will have to start with requesting those rights. I have backups for my PGP signature I used it for an Apache project release before. So, I can probably save time for that. I'll check with both dist svn rep and nexus for this project soon. > >> I'm asking this because my laptop got broken before the last week >> and I'm waiting for a new laptop to be delivered this week. If it is >> next week or afterward, I'll be prepared properly. > > If in the light of the above you are still willing to do this, I will > wait. I now have a better temporary laptop with a more familiar OS. So, I think I can proceed the preparations this week. Thanks, Woonsan > >> Regards, >> >> Woonsan >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Could somebody with commit rights volunteer for this? We have a >>> step-to-step guide >>> (http://freemarker.org/committer-howto.html#making-releases), and I >>> would be present to help with this (through Skype or whatever you >>> prefer). I want to see (and demonstrate) that in case I'm gone someone >>> else can do a release. >>> >>> Thanks a lot! >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Daniel Dekany >>> >> > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany >
