On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:42:45PM -0700, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:56:11PM -0700, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > Hmmm.... wouldn't it be better to take advantage of uplodaing -TRIAL > > packages earlier in the release process? > > > > * make RC1 of Lucy 0.3.0 (RM) > > * Upload Lucy-0.3.0-TRIAL1.tar.gz to CPAN. (CPAN packager) > > * If CPAN testers reveals flaws in -TRIAL pacakge, consider that when > > voting on RC1 (PMC) > > * Repeat from top as new RCs are produced (RM) > > * If vote passes re-upload final RC as Lucy-0.3.0.tar.gz (CPAN packager) > > If we are comfortable with distributing RC materials outside of Apache > channels, then yes. I'm not clear on that. Have other ASF projects done > something similar? If nobody knows, perhaps we might ask on > general@incubator? > > BTW, I verified that "TRIAL1" (with the added "1") will work against the > current PAUSE code. All that matters is that the filename contain the string > "TRIAL" (i.e. Lucy-0.3.0-ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION.tar.gz would work, too):
Is that part of the spec., or are you taking advantage of buggy behaviour? > > https://github.com/rjbs/pause/blob/8828bfba15fb1a1921ae286f417900f257fd9a76/lib/PAUSE/dist.pm#L253 > > if ( > $dist =~ /\d\.\d+_\d/ > || > $dist =~ /TRIAL/ > || > $dist =~ m|/perl-\d+\.\d+\.\d+-RC\d+\.|x > ) { > > Marvin Humphrey > -- Brad Harder Method Logic Digital Consulting http://methodlogic.net/ http://twitter.com/bcharder
