Also, I think this issue is distinct from the points Greg made about
the README and RELEASE-NOTES.  I think we should address those points
for this release, whereas I think we should talk this one out and come
up with a strategy for 1.3, but the graffle files should ship with
1.2.  Any objections?

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Todd Volkert <[email protected]> wrote:
> I concede that there are files we may want to keep out of releases
> that are in SVN (the Eclipse files are an existing case), and for
> those files, I think we should not include them in the release tag,
> since one of the smoke screens that PMC members perform is checking
> the contents of your source distribution against the tag.  If we don't
> want to include files such as the .graffle ones in releases, then
> that's fine (not my druthers, but I really don't feel strongly about
> it).
>
> However, if this list is to grow beyond just the Eclipse files, then I
> *do* strongly feel that we should come up with a more organized
> approach to where such files live, to simplify the release process.
> This all comes on the back of me working on a Pivot release management
> document that I'll check into SVN so that others can act as release
> managers in the future and have a well-documented procedure to follow.
>  Can the Eclipse files move, or would that mess with their function?
> If they can move, then maybe we create a single folder that contains
> everything that we exclude from releases...?
>
> -T
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>There is nothing wrong with a separate docs-source/ part in your
>>>repository that is used for source images, and only including the
>>>generated images in your src tree of your release.
>>
>> We actually use the PNGs generated from the .graffle files on the Wiki - 
>> they aren't even used by the source code. So I think this argues pretty 
>> strongly for keeping the .graffle files out of the distribution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
>

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