Re: Release Plugin (was Re: [All] Moving to git)

[Torsten Curdt <tc...@vafer.org>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 2014-12-31, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@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