I think it's could save us some time if we check the snapshot src artifact first. You can always create a source distribution without using maven release command.
Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 9:41 AM Xiangdong Huang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > In my understanding (I am not sure whether my understanding is correct), > uploading files to the maven Nexus Staging repository is optional... > > The only thing we must to do before starting a voting is uploading the > source-release.zip with its asc and sha512 files (and the > binary-distribtuion.zip if wanted) to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev > . > > There are two ways to generate the source-release.zip: > > (1) do it manually, and generate asc and sha512 files manually. > > (2) using mvn release:prepare and release:perform command to do that > automatically (maven will organize files according to the description of > distribution.xml, copying jars into the lib folder and copying scripts to > the correct location according to assembly folder and server.xml and > client.xml) > The side-effect is that, mvn release command will upload the jars into the > maven nexus staging repository... (fortunately, users can not observe these > files before I manually click "release" button, so that maybe we can bear > the side-effect) > > I think doing it automatically is good. If there is other ways to do that > automatically, I will try it. > > Best, > ----------------------------------- > Xiangdong Huang > School of Software, Tsinghua University > > 黄向东 > 清华大学 软件学院 > > > Justin Mclean <[email protected]> 于2019年10月13日周日 上午9:04写道： > > > Hi, > > > > I’m still not sure why you are preparing the maven artefacts before the > > vote is finished. I guess it good to check that everyone is OK but they can > > be prepared after as maven is not an official release area. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin
