On 28/06/2009, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Henri Yandell<flame...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The most important part to consider is 'What can go wrong?'.
>
>
> Ok, here's my reply to your question. Assuming that I am forced to
> follow the procedure as outlined by you. That means that I am forced
> not to use the maven-release-plugin.
Are you sure that is the case?
The Commons release wiki page implies that one can provide the RC number as in
<commons.rc.version>RC2</commons.rc.version>
> Consequently, I am forced to do a
> lot of manual steps, which would otherwise be completely automated.
> The likelyhood that something goes wrong would be dramatically
> increased, including production of invalid or corrupt artifacts at any
> stage in the process. I had my share of that and I don't want it any
> longer.
>
> And don't tell me anything about legal requirements. That was
> carefully discussed on legal@ in the thread on "Maven Releases" in
> April. The issues have been a lack of source distributions (which we
> at commons don't have, because we do and always did create source
> distributions), but the question of mutability or immutability of tags
> was no issue at all.
>
>
>
> Jochen
>
>
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