Re: AW: Is there any documentation of the process of releasing an Apache project built with maven?

[Hervé BOUTEMY <he...@free.fr>]

notice ASF parent pom is documented here:
http://maven.apache.org/pom/asf/

which explains some magic regarding assembly

Regards,

Hervé

Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 10:31:52 Christofer Dutz a écrit :
> Yeah ... think this was what I was looking for. I know the maven release
> process quite well and therefore knew that probably the source-jar was not
> enough ...
> 
> I didn't want to have to maintain an assembly config though but I was sort
> of surprised that the default config of the assembly plugin does exactly
> what I was looking for. I borrowed some plugin config from your project and
> I think I might be able to convince the others to start maven releases
> (Eventually even start converting some of the stuff to maven ;-) )
> 
> Chris
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. November 2014 10:33
> An: Maven Developers List
> Betreff: Re: Is there any documentation of the process of releasing an
> Apache project built with maven?
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> there is a quite detailed explanation of what Apache understands as a
> release:
> 
>   http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
> 
> Uploading the source JARs to Maven Central is afaik not enough.
> What UIMA does is, we set up the build so that as part of the Maven build,
> a ZIP of the checked out sources is done starting from the root of the
> checkout. It's actually pretty straight. I believe this ZIP is augmented
> with some license files etc. As part of the release this source ZIP and a
> corresponding ZIP containing a compiled distribution are uploaded to the
> Apache mirror system.
> 
> If you would like to take Apache UIMA as a role model, check out our release
> guidelines:
> 
>   http://uima.apache.org/release.html
> 
> And of course our Maven-based build setup which helps us in doing the
> releases is in the Apache SVN.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Richard
> 
> On 11.11.2014, at 10:23, Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > at the Flex project there are some parts being built with Maven. Now we
> > would like to release some of them and currently there is a bit of a
> > discussion about how to do this. Currently most people are insisting on a
> > rather manual process they have been using for releasing the Ant built
> > stuff.
> > 
> > Now I think maven could make life a lot easier for us, but I don't quite
> > know how to comply to the Apache release rules. I think simply releasing
> > the auto-generated source jars isn't what Apache understands as Source
> > release.
> > 
> > I guess you on this list have a lot of experience with releasing Maven
> > built Apache projects. Would be glad for some pointers. Searching the
> > Maven Confluence page doesn't guide me to release documentations dealing
> > with the requirements of the ASF and even mentioning "apache maven and
> > release" swamps me with maven-release-plugin documentation ;-)
> > 
> > Would be grateful for some links or clarification.
> > 
> > Chris
> 
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