Release Script

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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On 20-06-2012 19:30, Michael Jansen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I started to work on some script to help with our release creation
> and studied both dirks and allens scripts for input. But the recent
> discussion and my personal experience in doing releases (working as
> a software configuration manager) made me realize i (or better we)
> should take a step back and think about that process first before
> scripting it.
> 
> This is the chance and perfect time to solve the release problem
> once and for all. There are quite some people aware there is room
> for improvements and there currently is a lot of discussion and
> action going on.

<snip>

> The last step is done in maven because the support something called
> snapshot release which means their version looks like
> 4.7.1-20120621_151400. I think it could make sense to support that
> too. Stuff build from master or branch would be easily
> distuinguishable from really released stuff.

If you're suggesting to use <version>-<commit tag>.tar.xz tarballs,
then please forget that. That may not affect binary distributions, but
it affects source distributions.
Source distributions really appreciate consistent and *predictable*
names and URLs.

<snip>

> Mike
> 
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> 

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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng


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