On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:36:30PM +0100, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's what the wiki is for no? > > > > You could make a page for [math] like > > http://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus
I've tried to use that one, and if you followed the exchanges on this list about it, you certainly noticed that it was not fun. > Not to forget the grandfather of release guides: > http://commons.apache.org/releases/release.html I've just had a brief look at that one; I did not know it existed... Is it maintained and up-to-date? What I noticed with "UsingNexus" is that people who know how to release certainly did not follow exactly what was described there; otherwise they would have stumbled on the problems which I faced. That is often the problem with such documents: newbies cannot fill in the blanks and experts do not need to read them. Thus they are useless. My document is a step-by-step recipe; it contains the strict minimum, and what needs to be supplied (login, password, GPG key, ssh key, ...) clearly stands out. [By following it, someone who never prepared a release could do it in a few minutes, not the many hours I spent figuring out why maven did not seem to behave like the "UsingNexus" document assumed it should...] My document is not a explanation of maven or svn or nexus or ssh or gpg; it just enumerates the release steps in the correct order, with the correct commands and correct config files samples (as of last week). Regards, Gilles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
