On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < [email protected]> wrote:
> I have notes from Jan Lahoda for producing a release candidate: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/ > Apache+NetBeans+Release+README > > See the steps in 'Producing a Release Candidate' above, these are all > his notes, very practical and step by step. > > I'm hoping he'll produce the 9.0 Beta rc2 release candidate -- and > So, should I produce the zips now, or do we want to do something more? The zips would be mostly like the zips here: https://builds.apache.org/view/Incubator%20Projects/job/incubator-netbeans-release/173/artifact/dist/ So it is possible to check what would be the release. Jan > after that, i.e., for subsequent releases, others (e.g., me or anyone > else) should take over the task of putting the release candidate > together, so that multiple people have experience doing this and so > that we're not dependent on one person having the relevant knowledge > for this task. > > Thanks, > > Gj > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Geertjan Wielenga > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Geertjan, > >> > >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 at 23:14 Geertjan Wielenga < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Included as a convenience is a binary, unzip it and run it and you'll > >>> see Apache NetBeans: > >>> > >>> > >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/netbeans/ > incubating-netbeans-java/incubating-9.0-beta/incubating-netbeans-java-9.0- > beta-bin.zip > >>> > >>> > >> As I was just re-reading the release policy I wondered whether we > should be > >> providing a convenience binary in a vote? Or at least caveating it that > >> you shouldn't (binding) vote based on it? > > > > > > That's exactly what we're doing already. See the start of this thread > > -- if you like we can add that caveat even more clearly. I.e., the > > artifact that the vote is about is the source artifact and the > > convenience binary is only there as a convenience. > > > > Gj > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
