Hi Andy, On May 6, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Andy Jefferson wrote: > Having tried this "release process" I find the following. > > In step 7 it says > "7. Sign the artifacts. You must have a gpg key in order to perform > this step. > The sign-directory script is checked into jdo/bin. The script is in the bin directory parallel to trunk and releases. You may have to do an svn checkout if you don't have the entire jdo project. > Edit this script to refer > to your own environment (do not check it in). > bin/sign-directory releases/2.n/dist/jdo2.-rc" > > yet there is no directory with a name like that. > "releases/2.3-ea/dist" is the closest I have. Under that we have > db > m1-ibiblio-rsync-repository > > Is this correct ? > These are presumably created by the steps before that. So all files > under > there need signing. Ok. Right. All the .jar, .tgz, etc. artifacts need a detached signature and checksum. > > > > > If I look in the poms under > "releases/2.3-ea/dist/m1-ibiblio-rsync-repository/" > they all have > ${jdo.currentVersion} > This also seems to be what is being pushed about in IBiblio. It just > basically > seems wrong to me. They should have real versions in when over > there. I > suggest an extra step, before the signing > *** Update all poms under m1-ibiblio-rsync-repository to be the real > version > *** This was supposed to be fixed by the parent pom. Something musta gone bad... > > > > > Another question : there is no mention of checking in the stuff > under "releases". Some seem to have been checked in and some not. > What is the > policy ? We need to have a permanent svn archive of what we released. > > > > Also, how does the Maven2 repository "maven-metadata.xml" file get > changed ? > Is it manually hacked somewhere ? and if so, how does it then get > pushed onto > IBiblio ? It needs to be manually hacked for now, and made part of the release process. Craig > > > > Thx > -- > Andy (DataNucleus - http://www.datanucleus.org) Craig L Russell Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://db.apache.org/jdo 408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!