On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Are you able to give an overview or point me at the docs I haven't read yet. > > So, whenever we stage a release, Nexus creates a private repository > just for that one release of that one item. That's the URL sent around > in release votes. You can put that URL into a <repository>, but once > the release is promoted, it goes away. > > What Brian set up is a virtual repository that aggregates all the > private repos of this kind for things in our groupId > (org.apache.maven). So, if you add a <repository> with that URL, and > pending releases are visible to you. > > This enables a number of interesting things. First, if you put that in > your settings.xml, you can now do tests of any Maven release up for a > vote without having to manually configure the url of the vote thread. > > Second, an RM can stage a release of a shared component, and then go > ahead and modify something else to use it, and stage a release of > *that*.
Sweet thanks. Having to muck around with settings.xml for release votes is painful for me. Being behind a firewall makes it annoying. I can set this up once and forget about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
