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 >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >
