Assistance with ActiveMQ milestone release

[Hiram Chirino <hi...@hiramchirino.com>]

Hi fellow Geronimoers,

ActiveMQ is planing to do it's first milestone release while it's in  
the incubator.  Since you guys have done this before, I'm hoping you  
guys can recall what the gotchas were and/or have a tips on doing a  
good release.
I also have some questions:
  - Can I use the maven jar:deploy mechanism to do the release?
  - Do the artifacts need to have the "incubator" in the file name?
  - I've heard that releases need to be signed, I guess Alan can help  
with that.  But does mean that Alan has to do the release?
  - Do we have to and how so we use the apache mirrors when we  
advertise that the release is available.

I'm sure I'll think of of some more later.

Thanks,
Hiram

Re: Assistance with ActiveMQ milestone release

[Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com>]

Hiram,

Here are some reading material for background reading:
- http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Release+Manager%22+site%3Aapache.org

Also see below

On 1/3/06, Hiram Chirino <hi...@hiramchirino.com> wrote:
> Hi fellow Geronimoers,
>
> ActiveMQ is planing to do it's first milestone release while it's in
> the incubator.  Since you guys have done this before, I'm hoping you
> guys can recall what the gotchas were and/or have a tips on doing a
> good release.
> I also have some questions:
>   - Can I use the maven jar:deploy mechanism to do the release?

Am not sure, we usually create artifacts and then drop them into
locations on minotaur.apache.org

>   - Do the artifacts need to have the "incubator" in the file name?

See url link above.

>   - I've heard that releases need to be signed, I guess Alan can help
> with that.  But does mean that Alan has to do the release?

Typically the release manager signs the release. You can get yourself
a key too.

>   - Do we have to and how so we use the apache mirrors when we
> advertise that the release is available.

Yes, you do have to use apache mirrors. See
http://www.apache.org/dev/#mirror for more info.

> I'm sure I'll think of of some more later.
>
> Thanks,
> Hiram
>


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