Can a release guy detail what is painful and why we cant release with a script? Git or svn are scriptable to be auto so the scm is clearly not the release issue (maybe not fashion but not blocking) Le 11 oct. 2013 01:24, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Oct 10, 2013, at 18:13, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 10/10/2013 23:05, James Carman wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> I would suggest that a lack of releases is a much greater barrier. > Folks > >>> who contribute patches do so because they want to see them in a > release. > >>> If there are no releases (and looking back for the past 6 months there > >>> have been very few releases considering the number of components in > >>> commons) then, frankly, a move to git is largely irrelevant. What it > >>> will do little is distract what little effort there is going into > >>> releases making the overall problem worse not better. > >>> > >> > >> It's a catch-22. You don't have releases because you don't have > >> contributors. > > > > I disagree. We don't have releases because of an overly complex release > > process. > > > +1. It's a pain for sure. But there no simple solution aside from > reducing what we deliver and where :( > > Gary > > Figuring out how to do a Pool 2 release is on my TODO list. > > Having seen the pain others new to the Commons release process have gone > > though, I'm not looking forward to it at all. > > > > Mark > > > >> And, you don't have contributors because you don't have > >> releases. I agree we need to get busy cranking out some code to let > >> folks know we're not dead (yet). The only way I see us getting more > >> code going is to get new people and I honestly believe that using a > >> tool like Git will help us do that. > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
