As I understand it, this is a legal formality, not an honor. If you like I'll go fetch a clarification.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > > I confess that I never quite reproduced srowen's strange behavior. > Instead, > > I applied a few bandaids to the poms to get more predictable behavior: > > > > 1) I made collections depend on collections-codegen, in addition to using > > it, to ensure that the reactor would process the former before the later. > > 2) I added explicit configuration for the maven-release-plugin based on > > models that work for me every day. > > 3) I did a little profile refining to try to speed up the process a bit. > > > > then I sacrificed the requisite goat, clicked my heels together, and ran > the > > usual commands. > > > > I have a small update to make to the confluence page. > > > > I've heard tell that the official Apache process is as follows: > > > > 1) Vote someone as release manager. This shifts liability from the person > to > > the foundation in the event of some complaint. > > We've always just done it on a volunteer basis in all the projects I've > been involved in. I don't see any reason to be formal about it as it's not > like it is something that people jump up and down to do. > > > 2) Prepare the release. > > 3) Vote the release. > > > > Not all projects seem to make a habit of item #1, but unless someone is > sure > > that I'm confused, it would be nice. > > >
