On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote:
> > On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:55 PM, sebb wrote: > > > On 21 December 2010 05:21, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote > > > >> I have not included release notes in the src zip since my understanding > is the src zip should contain the directories pretty much as they exist in > SVN. Instead I have added a README.txt that tells a user how to generate > the announcement file. > > > > I would prefer to see the release notes generated and checked into > > SVN; they can then be included in both source and binary archives. > > > > See for example MATH and NET (2.0) > > I looked at net/trunk. I would prefer that the release notes be generated > during mvn release:prepare instead of requiring a manual mvn invocation to > create the release notes and then a commit. I have that working for the > binary distribution but I don't want to do it for the source distribution > since they shouldn't be included if they aren't in svn and, in my view, they > shouldn't be in svn because they will generally be out of sync with > changes.xml in trunk. > > I would say that is up to the RM :) I personally don't have a problem with the out-of-synch condition. What is important is, like changes.xml or any other file, what gets tagged and released. Phil > Ralph > >
