I ran the script and confirmed that it hangs silently when it queries for a
password.  So that needs to be fixed.  Meanwhile, there's a
release-1.6-branch created for you to work with.

Karl



On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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