[jira] [Created] (SQOOP-1536) Suggestion for release process

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sebb created SQOOP-1536:
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             Summary: Suggestion for release process
                 Key: SQOOP-1536
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1536
             Project: Sqoop
          Issue Type: Improvement
         Environment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/How+to+Release#HowtoRelease-Stagethereleaseartifacts

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/How+to+Release+Sqoop2
            Reporter: Sebb
            Priority: Minor


The release process notes suggest using people.apache.org home directory for staging release votes. This is the traditional way to do things.

However there is now a specific area in SVN that can be used for this purpose:

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/sqoop/

(writable by all sqoop committers)

The advantage of this is that it is in the same SVN repo as the release tree, i.e.

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/sqoop/

This means that when the vote passes, there is no need to checkout the existing release tree in order to update it. Nor is it necessary to upload the artifacts again.

Instead, one can use "svn move" to move the files across. And one can use svnmucc to batch the moves so they all occur as part of a single transaction.

This method reduces the need to upload/download files, and makes it easier to ensure that the files that were voted on are the ones that are eventually published.



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