On 11 October 2013 05:16, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2013-10-11, Matt Benson wrote: > >> We're all still talking about the release process, but in all honesty I've >> not done it for several years at Commons. I think it would be immensely >> helpful for those of us who have been at least part way through the process >> fairly recently (Emmanuel, Gary, others?) to present your recollections of >> what was difficult, so that we can have a real list of things to try and >> address. > > Not sure whether May is recent enough :-) > > AFAIR there isn't anything difficult. The major pain point for me is > the sheer number of manual steps - with it comes a big number of > opportunities to make mistakes - and the time it takes. > > One detail I just figured out after my third release was that I can > start the gpg-agent before running "mvn deploy" - and I think I've > documented that. Without that I had to type in my passphrase for every > single artifact.
With my setup, the gpg-agent is started automatically. I use Window; maybe gpg works differently on Unix. > I prefer the "create the tag manually and avoid the release plugin" Ditto. > approach but don't think there is a big difference here. > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
