Sebb, So to sum up, do we still have blocking issues left? If needed I can brew an other rc to fix a few more of those minor issues (they are fixed in trunk).
Thanks, Francis On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Francis De Brabandere<[email protected]> wrote: > ok, my bad, you can just define the tag when performing the release > using maven, it does not have to be the same as the version. So you > can set the version to 2.0.5-incubating and the tag to > 2.0.5-incubating-rc1. So when the release proceeds we can just copy > over that last rc to the final ant promote the 'staged' files. > > If we need another release and vote I will create an rc tag. > > Thanks for the pointer, > Francis > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:03 AM, sebb<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 01/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, sebb<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> > The new release candidate uses exactly the same name for the >>> artifacts >>> >> > and the SVN tag. >>> >> > >>> >> > This makes it very difficult to determine later what was actually >>> voted on. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Hmm, I don't see how this can be changed when using nexus, the Idea >>> >> there is to 'stage' a release and avoid it to be sent to the main >>> >> maven repo if it is not 100% correct. So for a 2.0.5 to get in there >>> >> we need to release as 2.0.5. And if this release fails I see no other >>> >> way than to start over using the same tags (renaming failed tag) >>> >> I could rename the tags to rc-1, rc-2 but that would not correspond to >>> >> the versions used in the pom's. >>> >> >>> >> How do you suggest we do this? >>> > >>> > No idea, but at least some other Incubator projects seem to manage >>> > this OK, as shown by threads here. >>> >>> >>> ok I talked about this on #maven and this is what they came up with >>> >>> .... >>> <francisdb> we are using nexus >>> <struberg> hi francisdb, we are cutting M3-rc1 M3-rc2 etc over at OWB >>> <struberg> there has been a (reaaaaaly long) discusson on the commons >>> list on this topic >>> <struberg> maybe you can check markmail.org for it. >>> >>> I suppose he is talking about this thread or soem related thread >>> http://markmail.org/search/?q=commons%20nexus%20staging#query:commons%20nexus%20staging%20list%3Aorg.apache.commons.dev+page:1+mid:bdjkatfcwukxsugn+state:results >>> >>> <Brian> francisdb, we typically stage rc's for testing but only call >>> votes on the last one >>> <Brian> the final version may end up being staged multiple times with >>> the same version number but using rc's reduces that likelyhood >>> <francisdb> I see >>> <francisdb> so your final version tag might be created/deleted a few times >>> ... >>> >>> So overwriting the tag should not be a problem as the maven guys are >>> also doing that. But indeed before calling a vote we might want to >>> have some rc's inspected to reduce the likelihood of a failing vote >>> >>> Do you agree with this idea? >> >> Perhaps you should speak with the Photark developers, as they are >> using SVN tags with RC markers. > > > they are doing what the maven guys > > -- > http://www.somatik.be > Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house. > -- http://www.somatik.be Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
