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From: Benedikt Ritter <britter@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [all] Deploying components
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:53:40 +0200
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Hello Stian,

> Am 05.06.2017 um 18:58 schrieb Stian Soiland-Reyes <stain@apache.org>:
>=20
> Personally I am happy about source distributions accompanying the jars =
in
> Maven Central, which are actually rebuildable as opposed to the
> -source.jars.
>=20
> they continue to be retrievable using Maven version mechanisms, =
compares to
> more fragile scripts crawling archive.apache.org (dist only contains =
the
> latest version).
>=20
> The -bin archives are less useful, however I have used their hashes =
during
> RC testing to confirm the jars in staging reasonably match the RC in =
dist
> (this can also be achieved by simply unpacking the binary dist and
> navigating to the jars)

It=E2=80=99s a PITA to manually commit the archive to the distilled =
area. This should be automated as part of the release process.

Regards,
Benedikt

>=20
>=20
>=20
> On 28 May 2017 3:01 am, "Rob Tompkins" <chtompki@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Hello all,
>>=20
>> Benedikt and I were chatting last week about how the .tar and .zip
>> distributions get uploaded to nexus during "mvn deploy=E2=80=9D and =
how annoying
>> that side effect of the deployment happens to be. Coincidentally, I =
just
>> ran across a note that  Mladen Turk added at the end of the =
commons-daemon
>> release guide:
>>=20
>> https://github.com/apache/commons-daemon/blob/trunk/
>> HOWTO-RELEASE.txt#L41-L43 <https://github.com/apache/
>> commons-daemon/blob/trunk/HOWTO-RELEASE.txt#L41-L43>
>>=20
>> I=E2=80=99m thinking: (1) interesting note, knowing that the problem =
still exists,
>> and (2) I wonder if there would be community appetite for an attempt =
at
>> adding better automation to the release process. I=E2=80=99m betting =
that with a
>> little effort we probably could improve the release experience at =
least a
>> little.
>>=20
>> Cheers,
>> -Rob


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