Moving this thread over to dev@subversion. We're using the dist area for our upcoming 1.7.4 release (early next week).
Also copying the mailing list for release managers (release-discuss@) Cheers, -g On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 13:58, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 February 2012 11:26, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10 February 2012 01:25, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm looking into updating the JMeter release instructions to use the >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/ repo. >> >> Potentially also add the information to the releases FAQ [2] for >> everyone to use. >> >> Ping: can no-one offer help here? > > I also asked on users@subversion, and did not get any further there. > > The only suggestion I got was to use svnmucc to allow multiple file > renames within a single commit. > > Is that what httpd is using? > > If so, do you have a script to create the command line? > >> AFAICT the project has been using svnpubsub for releases for some >> while now, and judging by the SVN logs have got a process that works >> well. > > Are there no RMs here who can provide details on how the httpd process works? > >> Hopefully JMeter and other projects can benefit from the httpd experience. >> >> [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#upload-ci >> >>> AIUI you use dev/httpd/ for vote staging, and then rename the files to >>> release/httpd/ >>> >>> The documentation [1] says: >>> >>>>> >>> *How do we make it public?* >>> ... >>> The release tarballs and signatures can be svn mv'ed from the >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/httpd/ repository across to the >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/httpd/ repository. >>> << >>> >>> I've tried using svn mv directly on a test repo (i.e. not using a >>> workspace), and it does not seem to be possible to move multiple files >>> at once. >>> >>> Can I ask for a bit more detail on how you actually do the move? >>> >>> I want to ensure that we preserve the history to show that the >>> release/ files are derived from the dev/ files; this ties them back to >>> the vote thread. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> [1] http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html
