On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:58:52PM +0200, Oliver Heger wrote: > Am 20.08.2012 16:08, schrieb Gilles Sadowski: > >On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 02:32:25PM +0200, Oliver Heger wrote: > >>Just a question about our current documentation about cutting releases: > >> > >>[1] mentions that symbolic links should be created for the > >>distributions. I think this is outdated. Can anybody confirm this? I > >>will then update the instructions accordingly. > > > >I don't know, but there were several wrong or incomplete statements in that > >document when, as a "newbie release manager" for Commons Math 3.0, I tried > >to follow it step by step. > >I collected the steps of a working procedure here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/commons/GillesSadowski/ReleaseMiniHowto > > > Thanks for the link. > > Publishing releases is already a surprisingly complex task. Having > multiple, partly outdated instructions makes it even harder :-(
If "UsingNexus" works for you, it is probably because you have additional configuration set up which is not talked about in that document, randering it useless for a newbie. People who know what to do don't need that document and it is thus kept in an unusable state... > > We should try to come up with one standard document. That's why I wrote the above, which is supposed to contain everything to perform a release, with links to information not detailed there but likely missing fomr a newbie's config (e.g. GPG key). > So far, for the > release preparations the UsingNexus document worked well for me. I > am going to update it when I encounter problems. I've encountered many problems, for some I got a solution from this list, for others I figured a solution by trial and error. Finally, I came up with a working recipe (the above document, which I asked here for review). If you want to go down the same path again... Regards, Gilles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
