I'm running it now; it is not terribly verbose, but you can see what it is
doing by using "top" or the equivalent.

I can't figure out how to grant permissions to edit the wiki to anyone; I
suggest ask infra if they can point us the way.

Karl



On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ahmet,
>
> A quick response to some of your questions:
>
> (1) I think it is possible that the scripts won't work if you don't have a
> stored password for svn, because they invoke svn copy (yes) but they do not
> permit it to ask for a password.
> (2) The parameters would be: 1.6 1.7 , as you guessed.
> (3) Getting permission to edit confluence may be a challenge; I will see
> if I have privs to grant you the ability to do it.
>
> I think it might be best for the moment if I ran the script to set up the
> release branch.  Any objections?  but I agree we should work on it to make
> it acceptable for Mac users.
>
> Karl
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Ahmet Arslan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Regarding create_release_branch.py and update_release_branch.py,
>>
>>
>> * do they "svn copy" operations too?
>> * where do I run them?
>> * what will be the parameters for this particular release?
>>
>> After I delete my ~subversion/auth, I tried following command but nothing
>> happened.
>>
>> python release-scripts/create_release_branch.py 1.6 1.7
>>
>>
>> How can I verify these python scripts are working on mac os?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regarding gpg,(I am a new learner with this one), documentation (
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html#sha1) says we should avoid sha-1.
>> I don't fully digest release.bat but I see sha-1 in it.
>>
>>
>> By the way it seems that I cannot edit confluence, my user name is
>> iorixxx . There are two spam comments in
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CONNECTORS/HowToBecomeACommitterI
>>  want to delete them.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for guidance,
>> Ahmet
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:44 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.orglogin 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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
>

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