Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-22 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Henri Yandell wrote: Don't your jars contain the version number too? Yeah, everything seems to :/ The most recent release types I've done are the type where you create the exact release and put it in your ~login where it's voted on. I like this because it makes the actua

Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/21/07, Nick Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All For the 3.0 release of POI, we followed the advice on voting on artificats, the not the state of the tree. So, we used our ant script to produce RC artificats, signed them, and placed them on people.apache.org for review. After the vote,

Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Thomas
Nick Burch wrote: > What do other people do about this for their releases, when voting on > artificats? Do you do each build as if it was -FINAL (so that gets > embeded into all the directory names etc), then rename the artificats > for voting, or something else? For Tomcat, every release candidat

Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
For commons transaction I did exactly that. Create/sign the RC as if it was the final release, but only put it on temporary storage without notifying anyone external. IMHO a RC is not meant to check for remaining bugs, but rather to see if the distro looks ok, installs, etc. That means the RC i

Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All For the 3.0 release of POI, we followed the advice on voting on artificats, the not the state of the tree. So, we used our ant script to produce RC artificats, signed them, and placed them on people.apache.org for review. After the vote, we renamed the files from -RC4- to -FINAL-, twe