Yeah ... think this was what I was looking for. I know the maven release process quite well and therefore knew that probably the source-jar was not enough ...
I didn't want to have to maintain an assembly config though but I was sort of surprised that the default config of the assembly plugin does exactly what I was looking for. I borrowed some plugin config from your project and I think I might be able to convince the others to start maven releases (Eventually even start converting some of the stuff to maven ;-) ) Chris ________________________________________ Von: Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. November 2014 10:33 An: Maven Developers List Betreff: Re: Is there any documentation of the process of releasing an Apache project built with maven? Hi Chris, there is a quite detailed explanation of what Apache understands as a release: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html Uploading the source JARs to Maven Central is afaik not enough. What UIMA does is, we set up the build so that as part of the Maven build, a ZIP of the checked out sources is done starting from the root of the checkout. It's actually pretty straight. I believe this ZIP is augmented with some license files etc. As part of the release this source ZIP and a corresponding ZIP containing a compiled distribution are uploaded to the Apache mirror system. If you would like to take Apache UIMA as a role model, check out our release guidelines: http://uima.apache.org/release.html And of course our Maven-based build setup which helps us in doing the releases is in the Apache SVN. Cheers, -- Richard On 11.11.2014, at 10:23, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Hi, > > at the Flex project there are some parts being built with Maven. Now we would > like to release some of them and currently there is a bit of a discussion > about how to do this. Currently most people are insisting on a rather manual > process they have been using for releasing the Ant built stuff. > > Now I think maven could make life a lot easier for us, but I don't quite know > how to comply to the Apache release rules. I think simply releasing the > auto-generated source jars isn't what Apache understands as Source release. > > I guess you on this list have a lot of experience with releasing Maven built > Apache projects. Would be glad for some pointers. Searching the Maven > Confluence page doesn't guide me to release documentations dealing with the > requirements of the ASF and even mentioning "apache maven and release" swamps > me with maven-release-plugin documentation ;-) > > Would be grateful for some links or clarification. > > Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org