+1 from my part, specially if it's not complicated to push the clirr maven plugin improvements.
Thanks, Eduard On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Here are some notes I took while releasing XWiki 4.3 on how to improve the > release process: > > * We need to automate the generation of the CLIRR report. This is what > takes the longest when releasing (not overall time but manual time > required). IMO this can be done relatively easily by creating a patch for > the CLIRR maven plugin itself to: > ** Add support for wildcards in the new <difference> syntax > ** Ensure that their report generation takes into account the > <justification> element > ** Possibly add a text report generation that we'll be able to copy paste > in our RN > > * Remove PURL generation for Tweets > ** Tweets are ephemeral so no need to have permanent URLs > ** Tweet clients already do URL shortening > (It's complex to use the PURL UI too) > > * Don't create RN summary for OW2, email and even blog post. This will win > some more time. Instead just link to the RN page which contains a summary > and all details. For example for the email it could be: > " > The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki > Enterprise <version>. > > You can download it here: > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download > > Make sure to review the release notes: > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki<short > version> > > Thanks > -The XWiki dev team > " > > * Put maven.xwiki.org:~/xwiki-release-scripts under Git and do a git > reset before the ow2 step to be sure to have clean scripts > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
