On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:34 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 doubt that. 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. > Same here. 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. > Couldn't agree more. That said - it's been a while since I last tried it. cheers, Torsten
