Re: [PROPOSAL] Source releases vs artifact releases

2015-08-04 Thread Bill Farner
Just to follow up - as i've progressed on putting together tooling for building artifacts on a regular basis [1], splitting out the packaging tooling seems like the most sane approach. In addition to the reasons already mentioned w.r.t. tagging, it will be much easier to manage isolation of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Source releases vs artifact releases

2015-07-30 Thread Bill Farner
I'm mostly indifferent to whether the packaging code lives in another repo. Anyone else have an opinion? -=Bill On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Jake Farrell jfarr...@apache.org wrote: Going back to the 0.9.0 example, if I checkout the 0.9.0 tag it will always have a broken

Re: [PROPOSAL] Source releases vs artifact releases

2015-07-27 Thread Kevin Sweeney
+1 On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Bill Farner wfar...@apache.org wrote: Hi folks, An issue that we have not yet officially addressed is release management as it pertains to binary artifacts we produce of Aurora. Today, when we cut a release, say 0.9.0, we essentially take a snapshot of

[PROPOSAL] Source releases vs artifact releases

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Farner
Hi folks, An issue that we have not yet officially addressed is release management as it pertains to binary artifacts we produce of Aurora. Today, when we cut a release, say 0.9.0, we essentially take a snapshot of (most of) our repository as a basis for voting and eventual distribution. An

Re: [PROPOSAL] Source releases vs artifact releases

2015-07-27 Thread Jake Farrell
In order to make this repeatable it might be good to split this off entirely into its own aurora-packaging repo. If its still in the main repo then when we create the release branch the packaging source will still be in the new release branch, but the packaging code would not necessarily line up

Re: [PROPOSAL] Source releases vs artifact releases

2015-07-27 Thread Bill Farner
Wouldn't a separate repo make it even more difficult to associate build script changes to source code changes? -=Bill On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jake Farrell jfarr...@apache.org wrote: In order to make this repeatable it might be good to split this off entirely into its own