Kind of OBE by now but maybe this might have helped some (and the links on the page) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+Management
Eric Bresie ebre...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 8:13 PM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/3/23 02:33, Neil C Smith wrote: > > Hi Laszlo, > > > > On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 20:59, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've started the finalization steps for Apache NetBeans 16-u1 release. > > Thanks for leading this through, and sorry for being personally > > incommunicado and not getting around to voting - I would love to claim > > excessive merriment, but mainly just laid low by a virus. :-\ > > Get well, that's the important! > > I have not felt myself alone in this release, thank you for guiding me > through! It seems we've evolved quite much, since my days. > > > >> So far: > >> > >> - Created a "16-u1" tag in Git > >> - Moved the 16-u1 folder into the release area in subversion. > > Sounds good. > > > >> Next, I'd do the following: > >> > >> - do a subversion copy on ^/release/netbeans/netbeans/16-u1/nbms as > >> ^/release/netbeans/netbeans/16/nbms/16-u1 > > No need for that. Just keep everything where it is. We don't want > > duplicate binaries in the releases section, and keeping things clearly > > separated is better (in some ways) for managing. > > > >> - Prepare a manually patched updates.xml (the gz as well) on the > >> NetBeans VM adding the new location of the two patched modules. > >> - Wait a day for the mirrors to be sync-ed > > No need for that - no mirrors to sync anymore! There is instead a > > download CDN service - dlcdn.a.o > > > > If you check the .htaccess file on the VM, you'll notice we no longer > > link to closer.lua but directly to dlcdn. The main download pages > > still use closer.cgi, but you should see the link come up as dlcdn in > > most cases - eg. > > > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/netbeans/netbeans/16/netbeans-16-bin.zip > > > > So, to make this easier, please hardcode the links in updates.xml to > > > > > https://dlcdn.apache.org/netbeans/netbeans/16-u1/nbms/extide/org-netbeans-modules-gradle.nbm > > > https://dlcdn.apache.org/netbeans/netbeans/16-u1/nbms/java/org-netbeans-modules-gradle-java.nbm > > > > Could do with a better system for this, as we'll need to update the > > links again when we archive. Perhaps using alternative relative links > > and .htaccess. I realise your suggestion to copy under 16/nbms/ might > > help there, but other downsides to that. > > > >> - Activate the patched update.xml on NetBeans VM (Keeping a backup > >> version) > > Yes, please keep a backup in place. Also make sure the owner / > > permissions ensure it's not served. > Well, I left the owner as www-data:www-data, the .htaccess takes care > that only updates.xml* is served. > > Created files updates-16.xml and updates-16-u1.xml (and gz and sha512 in > the same pattern). updates.xml and others have been replaced with > symlinks pointing to the 16-u1 versions. > > It seems to be working, so people will start to receive these updates on > the next update center check. > > I'm sending out announcements soon. > > Once again, > > Thank you Neil! > > > > > > And please use [RELEASES] in the email subject - helps anyone doing > > subject filtering. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Neil > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
