I'm very glad that people are having this discussion here. I, too, give my heartfelt +1 to the notion of "promoting" the build to a release by simply copying it, but I've argued elsewhere that the way the maven-release-plugin works, really the very idea of the way that it works, is dangerous from a release engineering perspective.
I work for one of the large corporate clients that jdcasey referred to earlier; we take release engineering very seriously. The big thing you want *not* to do is to do a build in an unusual/different way right before you release. The idea should be that every build should be releasable; you should need merely to copy the build and tag the source to promote it. Specifically, I've been working with Mergere on a build numbering strategy that would make this possible, and I've written up documentation about this (and a variety of other stuff) here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/BEA+Maven+Requirement+Documen ts The most important bit here is the notion of builds getting automatically numbered by the continuous integration system in a way that can be tracked back to source control. (The bit about Windows libraries is important, too, but not relevant to this discussion.) As a committer, this is one of the issues in which I'm very interested, and I'm very interested in helping out with making the release process 100 Rock Solid for Maven projects [and, uh, the world :-)]. -Dan _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
