On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:34 +0000, sebb wrote: > On 20/03/07, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:00 +0000, sebb wrote: > > > Good idea. > > > > > > AIUI, you don't actually need a vote to create a tag and do a build; > > > only to formally approve a release before it is copied to the > > > distribution directory. > > > > > > Once you have the release files ready, you may well find that there > > > are more people prepared to add a +1. > > > > > > Sebastian. > > > > Hi Sebastian > > > > I feel deeply uncomfortable about the idea of creating release tags > > *prior to* a formal vote for several reasons (the main being the version > > tag in Maven's pom.xml). Would it be okay if I created a pre-release > > snapshot build and held a vote on it? > > > > Sorry, but the vote needs to be held on the actual files to be > released - AIUI that is the whole point. > > I don't myself see a problem with creating a release tag (especially > for a release such as ALPHA4) prior to the release vote. > > Create the tag, build everything and ask for the vote. If it passes - > OK, if not, you may need to create ALPHA5 and repeat. > > Tags are cheap in SVN. >
They may well be, but for projects that use Maven2 there is more to tagging a release than creating a SVN copy of trunk. Tagging a Maven2 release is not that 'cheap'. Oleg > S. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
