Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Hi all, > > After ripping out my hair for a few days I can still not get a release to > go. Release is now gone :-) > Javadoc seems to be completley broken. Agreed, I got a null pointer exception from our magic plug-in. I have updated the release instructions to *not* include javadoc generation until such time as it works. > problems with the following > modules: > > plugin/epsg-hsql > did not find a problem. > ext/widgets-spring > did not find a problem. > ext/go > did not find a problem. > ext/shape > Was missing an svn:ignore on a generated index file. > And there could be more, I gave up after 4 errors. So we are stuck without > javadocs, and if we want a release we have to manually do everything, > which is a pain. > Ended up reading the release:perform instructions, by default this goal does "deploy" and "site-deploy". The wiki has been updated with an example showing how to get it to do only "deploy". > I will not have any more time to put toward this until next week. I should > also note that GeoServer is not making it project policy to release > against official geotools releases due to the overhead of releasing > geotools and not having a working release process. > Please make use of yesterdays release, geotools needs to (and will fix) the overhead of making a release. I would like to set things up so projects like uDig and GeoServer can ask for a release given one weeks notice and expect to see results.
With respect to the "larger" problem of why the release process was broken. - QA tools added to the build chain, and only tested for maven install (rather then full release process) - files left on the 2.2.x branch that were needed for assembly of release artifacts - focus on javadocs destracted from real need to produce results - lack of communication (both wiki instructions and email on release progress) I am sure we can do better next time :-) Jody PS. I am working on a steering document that I will try and share with the list shortly, feedback from the geoserver community in terms of expectations is important and needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
