Our official release process docs
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxPMGT/Release+Branching
+Process
were mostly written before the maven-release-plugin worked at all and
before we had much of the current variety of projects. Despite the
maven-release-plugins warts it's still far better than doing
everything by hand.
I would like our docs to be a slight modification of
http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/releasing.html
so as to be specifically relevant to geronimo projects.
The specific explicit policy change I'd like to see:
-- NO BRANCHES unless absolutely necessary. At this point we
probably still need branches for the main server, but I don't think
we do for anything else, including xbean, specs, components, plugins,
gshell, genesis etc etc. I think the current documented process of
automatically creating a branch before releasing only serves to
create confusion for most of these projects.
Question:
Is there anything we can't release with the release plugin? ( I
expect it would be the main server, but has anyone tried?)
I'm willing to copy the maven page to our wiki and attempt to update
it for geronimo and use it to release the roller plugin, but it might
be even better if someone who has actually used the release plugin
did the doc update. Any volunteers?
I'd like to get this resolved soon so we can use this for the roller
plugin release.
thanks
david jencks
