I don't know of a way to auto generate release notes, but I'll be happy to read through the commit history and draft a copy. Sound good?
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]>wrote: > fwiw, here are the list of JIRAs changed in this release: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12324412&styleName=Html&projectId=12314430 > > A. > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Oh crap, I forgot one key part - the release notes. silkysun, how do we >> generate those? >> >> A. >> >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Note - this is *not* an official vote thread, hence it not also going to >>> incubator@. This is an informal preliminary to the official release >>> vote. >>> >>> I've cut the first attempt at a viable RC for 1.6.1-incubating. The bits >>> we'll end up voting on are in >>> http://people.apache.org/~abayer/jclouds-1.6.1-incubating-candidate-0/- >>> note that the binary artifacts are only there for the CLI, since we don't >>> have binary tarballs for any other projects. And remember that you're not >>> actually voting on the binary artifacts anyway - you're voting on the >>> *source*. >>> >>> I've pushed the "*-1.6.1-incubating-rc0" tags in the appropriate git >>> repos, though I have *not* pushed HEAD on 1.6.x from my local repos as of >>> yet - that's because my local 1.6.x branches have the commits updating the >>> versions to 1.6.1-incubating and then onward to 1.6.2-SNAPSHOT, and an >>> additional commit in the case of all the ones but jclouds proper bumping up >>> the jclouds (and other project) dependencies to 1.6.1-incubating. Those'll >>> get pushed when the release has actually passed the Incubator PMC vote and >>> we are actually releasing - otherwise, we're in for a hellish time dealing >>> with undoing the changes to put any additional fixes in, due to the fact >>> that we can't force-push to ASF's git repos. >>> >>> So what do you all need to do in order to validate the RC? Take a look >>> at the "Validating the release" section at >>> http://helix.incubator.apache.org/releasing.html for an idea (though >>> note that we don't need -Prat in a mvn call - we always call the rat >>> plugin). Remember that you can get the KEYS file from >>> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/jclouds/KEYS. Beyond the >>> source/signature/license/etc validation (which is what is going to matter >>> to the IPMC), we care whether the code actually *works*. So please give the >>> bits a shot in any apps you've got depending on jclouds, run the live tests >>> for any providers you have creds for, etc. >>> >>> Again, this isn't a formal vote, so there isn't a formal deadline for >>> getting your response in. But the sooner you can, the sooner I can get the >>> bits in front of the IPMC for the formal vote process. So I'm going to give >>> it 'til sometime on Thursday, and if I haven't heard of any problems by >>> then, I'll kick off the formal release vote then. The bits/repos/tags/etc >>> are below. Thanks! >>> >>> - jclouds >>> - Maven staging repo - >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejclouds-015/ >>> - tag - jclouds-1.6.1-incubating-rc0 >>> - source artifact - >>> jclouds-multi-1.6.1-incubating-source-release.tar.gz >>> >>> - chef >>> - Maven staging repo - >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejclouds-021/ >>> - tag - jclouds-chef-1.6.1-incubating-rc0 >>> - source artifact - >>> chef-project-1.6.1-incubating-source-release.tar.gz >>> >>> - labs >>> - Maven staging repo - >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejclouds-020/ >>> - tag - jclouds-labs-1.6.1-incubating-rc0 >>> - source artifact - >>> jclouds-labs-1.6.1-incubating-source-release.tar.gz >>> >>> - karaf >>> - Maven staging repo - >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejclouds-022/ >>> - tag - jclouds-karaf-1.6.1-incubating-rc0 >>> - source artifact - >>> jclouds-karaf-pom-1.6.1-incubating-source-release.tar.gz >>> >>> - cli >>> - Maven staging repo - >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejclouds-023/ >>> - tag - jclouds-cli-1.6.1-incubating-rc0 >>> - source artifact - >>> jclouds-cli-pom-1.6.1-incubating-source-release.tar.gz >>> - binary artifacts - jclouds-cli-1.6.1-incubating.tar.gz, >>> jclouds-cli-1.6.1-incubating.zip >>> >>> A. >>> >> >> >
