I have kept myself busy studying the information in HACKING [1], in Mark's SVN Release Management repo [2], in tools/dist/release.py, etc.
A quick test run with release.py seems to work (mostly) correctly. It successfully installs the needed Autoconf, Libtool, and SWIG. It is able to generate tarballs and Windows zips (though I haven't tested these at all; they're just throwaways right now). There were a few warnings while rolling these throwaways: * Copyright year is stale; I committed r1914220 and r1914221 to address that. * CHANGES has unmerged revisions; that's expected because I haven't updated CHANGES yet. That's the next task on my list. * It complained that COMMITTERS file is not found, therefore make-keys.sh failed. I remember seeing something about this in Mark's svnrm repo notes. Need to revisit that... Also a couple of questions: Do we notify translators before a patch release? (i.e., should I send out an email as described in #notify-translators [3]?) I need to guesstimate the release date. If I can get to the point of rolling tarballs within the next few days, how much time will be needed by those who plan to test? Thanks, Nathan [1] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/community-guide.html#release-creating [2] https://github.com/markphip/svnrm [3] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/community-guide.html#notify-translators
