On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Guillaume Nodet wrote:
> I think voting on svn source for small projects / jars is good,
> because people can build them locally, check that everything
> is ok (for legal reasons), and vote. This is much more difficult
> for Geronimo server, of course, and may not be applied.
>
> This works well, I think, if the release process is just
> mvn release:prepare release:perform
> which should be the case for all projects ideally.
> The benefit is that the jars will be deployed to their final
> destination
> as part of the relase, without having to tweak / corrupting maven
> repository metadata by copying from a staging repo.
>
For my part, I'd prefer to follow this approach going forward. I
agree with Guillaume that it may not totally work for Geronimo unless
we choose an SVN number as the release point so people can track
changes to a branch.
Having been through the release process a few times I think that
using Maven to generate the artifacts is so much simpler and
automagically updating the repo is far easier as well.
I'd like to propose (in a separate thread) that we adopt this process
going forward for specs. If the vote succeeds then I think David
could follow it for these specs as a test case.
Matt Hogstrom
matt@hogstrom.org
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