Re: Simplifying the Release feature

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

+1

I think the prepare was separate to allow voting on something, but now  
that there is a prepare-vote-promote approach instead it doesn't  
really need to be separate.

- Brett

On 22/06/2009, at 3:03 PM, Wendy Smoak wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Olivier Dehon<od...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> One might even wonder why there would be a need for 2 full builds to
>> happen for the release (one for the prepare and one for the  
>> perform). In
>> combining steps, it might even be worth skipping the "prepare"  
>> build and
>> execute the perform one from the tag directly.
>
> Good idea!  I can see why this happens in the release plugin -- you
> want to make sure you have a successful build before you tag.  In our
> case, though, I'm pretty sure Continuum already refuses to do the
> release unless the last build state is success.  [That doesn't
> guarantee everything is fine, since the last build might have been
> just the website or something less than the full build that will
> happen during the release.]
>
> -- 
> Wendy