Author: crossley
Date: Wed Apr 18 21:16:17 2007
New Revision: 530255
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=530255
Log:
Improve examples of tag names.
Modified:
forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/procedures/release/How_to_release.xml
Modified:
forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/procedures/release/How_to_release.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/procedures/release/How_to_release.xml?view=diff&rev=530255&r1=530254&r2=530255
==============================================================================
---
forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/procedures/release/How_to_release.xml
(original)
+++
forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/procedures/release/How_to_release.xml
Wed Apr 18 21:16:17 2007
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@
<li>Make sure that people have followed the actual user
instructions in the Forrest
distribution at README.txt and index.html</li>
<li>Encourage people to build some difficult sites.</li>
+ <li>Remind people about how long remains for testing.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>If substantial problems are revealed (not just minor glitches)
then co-ordinate their
fixing by other developers. Doing the fixing of issues is
not the Release Manager's job.
@@ -761,7 +762,8 @@
introduce new problems.
</li>
<li>If necessary start again with <a href="#BuildDist">Building the
packages</a> and build another
- release candidate.</li>
+ release candidate. Remember to do 'svn update' first and to record
the
+ new SVN revision number.</li>
<li>Tally the votes and report the result to the dev list.</li>
</ol>
<note>
@@ -778,7 +780,8 @@
<ol>
<li><p>
If there have been changes to the trunk since the branch was
- created, then merge trunk to branch.
+ created, then merge trunk to branch. Remember to use a proper
commit message
+ which includes th erevision number used for the merge (see the SVN
Book).
</p>
<fixme author="fso">
What is the purpose of this step? It doesn't seem to be right
@@ -794,17 +797,17 @@
<li><p>
Tag SVN by doing:
</p>
- <source>svn copy -m "Create tag forrest_###xy### from release
branch" \
+ <source>svn copy -m "Create tag forrest_###xy###_release from
release branch" \
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/branches/forrest_###xy###_branch \
- https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tags/forrest_###xy###</source>
+
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tags/forrest_###xy###_release</source>
<p>
- where 'xy' is a compact (without the dots) form of the version
+ where '###xy###' is a compact (without the dots) form of the
version
number (e.g. 04, 041, 05).
</p>
<p>
See
<a
href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tags/";>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tags/</a>
- for examples of past tags, e.g. forrest_07
+ for examples of past tags, e.g. forrest_08_release
</p>
<fixme author="fso">
If we change procedure to create an rc-branch this will become a
@@ -814,11 +817,11 @@
<li><p>
Tag the "site" SVN by doing:
</p>
- <source>svn copy -m "Create tag forrest_###xy### release" \
+ <source>svn copy -m "Create tag forrest_###xy###_release_site from
site" \
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/site \
- https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tags/forrest_###xy###</source>
+
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tags/forrest_###xy###_release_site</source>
<p>
- where 'xy' is a compact (without the dots) form of the version
+ where '###xy###' is a compact (without the dots) form of the
version
number (e.g. 04, 041, 05).
</p></li>
<li><p>
