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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:05:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Poetz <reinhard@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Cocoon 2.2 M1 artifacts in m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository
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Wendy Smoak wrote:
> On 8/6/06, Brett Porter <brett.porter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This isn't a matter of agreeing or disagreeing. If you put something
>> into the sync repository, it is the same as putting it into /dist/.
>> You've said "we've released these files, push them out to the world".
>>
>> It's becoming all too frequent that stuff gets pushed there and then
>> done again when a problem is noticed. I would like to see us
>> cataloguing the reasons this occurs and doing whatever we can to avoid
>> it in future.
> 
> We need a release staging repository.  And then we need a reliable way
> to "promote" artifacts from staging to ibiblio-rsync, so that the
> repository metadata is correct.
> 
> I can't see how any project with a reasonably complex build could
> release straight to the rsynced repo.  And definitely not the ones
> (like Struts) that use a test build stage, where a version is tagged
> and built, then voted on later.  It's nice if everything works
> perfectly the first time, but all you have to do is forget to enable a
> profile, or have a connection drop, and you have to re-build.
> 
> What do you think?

I agree here. We (the Cocoon community) came to the same conclusions.

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Reinhard P�tz           Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach 

{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}

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