Hi, it has been a while since I last did a release on a windows box. IIRC I used putty/pageant on a regular windows command line.
I will do the 2.8 release. Regards Marcel On 27/05/15 10:25, "Julian Reschke" wrote: >On 2015-05-22 13:54, Julian Reschke wrote: >> On 2015-05-22 07:52, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> OK, >>> >>> we have dealt with the emergency, but there's some aftermath left to >>>do. >>> >>> - We need to do proper releases of 2.8, 2.6, 2.4, 2.2, and 2.0. >>> >>> - Once done with that, we should announce end-of-life for 2.2 and 2.0. >>> >>> Do we have any volunteers for doing some of the releases? >>> >>> Best regards, Julian >> >> In the meantime I have >> >> 1) created versions for future 2.4/6/8 release in JIRA, and >> >> 2) prepared the release notes for 2.0/2/4/6/8 in Subversion >> >> With respect to starting the release: we probably need wait until early >> next week, otherwise we'll have a weekend and a public holiday (at least >> here) within the 72 hours period. > >...in the meantime I tried to do a release:prepare. It currently fails >for me (Windows, Cygwin). Does anybody else who is on Windows have >instructions on how to get this done? > >Alternatively, it would be great if other committers with release >experience could help out for some of these branches. > >Best regards, Julian
