On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 18:45, Harald Wellmann
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Just a few remarks and questions on the Release Process Wiki page:
> http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/**displ 
> ay/ops4j/Releasing<http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/ops4j/Releasing>
>
> - The process is based on Sonatype OSS and requires a Sonatype account. I
> think this should be mentioned first of all.
>

yes


>
> - The current parent POM is org.ops4j:master:2.0.0 for all projects, PAX
> or not.
>

true


>
> - Are there any pros and cons for using mvn release:prepare and mvn
> release:perform in two separate invocations, compared to calling
> mvn release:prepare release:perform in one go?
>

nope; not even one


> - Usually you'll want to add -DautoVersionSubmodules=true.
>

true


> - You'll have to make sure that the Maven Release plugin is able to tag
> and push to Github. Or do you push manually? I don't even remember how I
> did it last time... But I had to do some fumbling with ssh-agent and so
> on...
>

Depends on your configuration. per default it would push automatically


> - Is the repos.ops4j profile still used?
>

not as far as i know


> - AFAIK, pushing to Maven Central _only_ works via a Staging repository
> (i.e. profile repos.sonatype.staging), so why should anyone use the
> repos.sonatype profile for a release?
>

dont think so


> Maybe for a milestone release, but in general, we do want to promote our
> artifacts to Maven Central, don't we?
>

everything should go (IMHO) to m2 central; this is the place where ppl use
it; every other location isn't really liked...


> - Change log: the Pax Runner example is a manual list. I think the
> Confluence JIRA macros are way smarter :-) See Pax Exam.
>

well, IMHO manual lists are more beautiful :-) but I can live with both


> - Sonatype Nexus authentication: The "jira task" link refers to OPS4J
> INFRA. This should be Sonatype OSSRH.
>

true


> - gpg --gen-key took ages on my machine for lack of entropy. I had to use
> rngd to speed this up.
>

for me it worked quite well; best if you  do some heavy operations; e.g.
unrar a 60gb file or something like this :-)


> - Is it still required to upload the keys to http://www.ops4j.org/keys?
>

nope

Kind regards,
Andreas


> Best regards,
> Harald
>
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