Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-31 Thread Upayavira
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:00 -0400, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Robert Muir wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: (Long post, please bear with me and please read!) Now that we have the release

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-31 Thread Robert Muir
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: Are you willing to say more? I have a little time, and have done a lot of work with Ant. Maybe I could help. Upayavira Thanks, there is some followup discussion on this JIRA issue:

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Other things to add: 1. Managing our website is a big pain in the butt. Why do we need to publish PDFs again? We really need to get on the new CMS. 2. Copying/moving the artifacts to the release area could be automated, too At the end of the day, #1 below is what strikes me as the biggest

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:45:53AM -0400, Grant Ingersoll wrote: Why do we need to publish PDFs again? IIRC, publishing PDFs is the default in Forrest. It might have been a passive choice. Yeah, it is. I know. Just one more thing

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-31 Thread Upayavira
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:51 -0400, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: Are you willing to say more? I have a little time, and have done a lot of work with Ant. Maybe I could help. Upayavira Thanks, there is some

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-30 Thread Grant Ingersoll
I'll also add: We need to figure out a better approach for CHANGES.txt. Step 4 of the Publishing process is a PITA. On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: (Long post, please bear with me and please read!) Now that we have the release done (I'm working through the publication

RE: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-30 Thread karl.wright
Hi Grant, This is a great post. I'm not a committer for Lucene or Solr, but I'm seriously thinking that much of what Lucene/Solr does right should be considered by the project I AM a committer for: ManifoldCF. Key things I would add based on experience with commercial software development:

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-30 Thread Robert Muir
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: (Long post, please bear with me and please read!) Now that we have the release done (I'm working through the publication process now), I want to start the process of thinking about how we can improve the release

Re: Brainstorming on Improving the Release Process

2011-03-30 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Robert Muir wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: (Long post, please bear with me and please read!) Now that we have the release done (I'm working through the publication process now), I want to start the process of