Ahmet, if you are still willing to do this, I would suggest planning to get started on the first RC sometime in the middle of next week. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, so that we can work it all out with plenty of time to spare.
Thanks! Karl On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > I just updated the release process document for MCF, because uploading to > people.apache.org has now changed to require a public/private key pair. > So you will need to generate that too, and make sure your > people.apache.org login supports login by private key. I've included the > link in the wiki page. > > Thanks, > Karl > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ahmet, >> >> Thanks for volunteering! >> >> The release process is actually automated with scripts. The scripts, >> though, are in part Windows batch files. If you are releasing on Linux you >> will want to code the bash versions of these. >> >> Anyway, please read the following: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CONNECTORS/Release+Process >> >> You will need various tools installed on your release system, AND you >> will need to have a signing key. Your public key will need to be added to >> the KEYS file included in the release as well as being registered. Please >> read this: >> >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html >> >> Thanks, >> Karl >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Ahmet Arslan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Karl, >>> >>> I am volunteer to be release manager for 1.6 Release. >>> I assume http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html is the guide? >>> >>> Ahmet >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, April 7, 2014 3:23 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> A reminder that MCF 1.6 is due to be released on April 29. This means we >>> probably will want our first release candidate in about a week. >>> >>> There is only one outstanding ticket at the moment, owned by Piergiorgio. >>> Please evaluate this ticket and either resolve it or postpone it. >>> >>> I am also wondering if anyone is interested in being the release manager >>> for this release. I've done the last half-dozen releases or so and am >>> happy to do another, but it would be good if other committers also had >>> some >>> release engineering experience, I think. Volunteers? >>> >>> Karl >>> >>> >> >
