On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2014-12-31, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> > wrote: > > >> Just as a "letter of intent" - I'd prefer to cut Compress 1.10 while > >> we're still in svn (as I know how to do it, I'm in the "avoid the > >> release plugin" camp) and call for a vote for moving to git after that. > > > 1.) And why don't you intend to use this plugin? I know, it is a > > non-trivial task to use it, but my impression is that it's worth to > > struggle yourself through. > > I have tons of experience with the release plugin at work, with git and > with svn. And it's the reason I avoid it as it has cost me a lot of > time in the past. > > Some of my problems are probably really just "my" problems. I've got a > pretty flaky and slow network upstream and it has happened more than > once that "deploy" of one file failed and I had to roll back the whole > release process, drop the staging repo and so on. By now I create an > upload bundle manually (not really manually, but not using Maven) and > upload a single file. And the whole process of tagging and creating > archives is separated from that. > > So my main beef is the release plugin is doing a lot of things and if a > single one of them fails I have to perform quite a bit of manual cleanup > and then must start over again. My "manual approach" is a lot more > forgiving. > > > 2.) Has anyone already attempted to use the release plugin with git? > > In my experience the release plugin works as well or bad with git as it > does with svn. > > Stefan > > In my experience, it works much, much better. We use it with Accumulo on git: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/accumulo/accumulo/1.6.1/accumulo-1.6.1.pom -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
