A bit late to the discussion. I just finished going through the release
instructions. It's a lengthy process (understandably). Having been
involved in releases of some internal projects, I do not see anything
out the ordinary in these steps.
Coming to the artifact signing step, which is what the core of this
discussion seems to be (correct me if that's not the case, the PR has
too many different commits for me to narrow it down), I personally don't
have any issues using the gpg tool usage that's explained in the
instructions.
Overall, I don't have any specific changes/suggestions to add especially
since the steps themselves are clear enough and this only just affects
the people who do the releases.
-Jaikiran
On 28/12/17 10:02 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
Hi
over in https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/54 Gintas is proposing to
automate some of the steps needed to cut a release of Ant that so far
have been performed manually. He's also ripping out the maven Ant task
stuff from fetch.xml and replacing it with Ivy, but that seems to be a
separate issue, it is just that automation becomes easier once fetch is
based on Ivy. At least that's my understanding of the situation, please
correct me if I'm wrong, Gintas.
For the last few releases I have been the release manager but this will
not always be the case so it won't be a good idea if I enforce my taste
here. In particular as I seem to be willing to suffer more than many
other people cutting releases - judging from the moaning about the
release process in Commons which involves far fewer steps than cutting a
release of Ant.
I'd ask you to look through the Release Process description[1] and look
for things that can and should be automated - assuming we can find a
reliable solution. Personally I prefer to stay in control at every
single step but maybe my level of paranoia is just wrong here.
Cheers
Stefan
[1] https://github.com/apache/ant/blob/master/ReleaseInstructions
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