yep... now all we need is a way to easily purge if the vote is cancelled - Stephen
--- Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the screen On 30 Nov 2011 00:24, "Barrie Treloar" <baerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
