On 16 March 2011 16:09, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: >> I finally cajoled maint.mk into actually making a stable release of GNU Zile. >> >> There are a couple of odd things about the final stages: >> >> 1. It doesn't upload the release tarball &c. itself, it emits commands >> to do so. Why? > > Uploading is final. > Once you do it, you may have trouble undoing it, > so I prefer merely to emit the command.
Prompting for one's GPG passphrase gets around this. >> 2. There's no post-release hook which I can use for my Freshmeat >> announcement (AFAICS). > > If it's via some web form, then no. Not sure I understand. To announce on Freshmeat I run a command. I don't care how it works (I think it's via a RESTful XML API, whatever that is, but I really don't give two hoots). I just want a hook I can put a command in. > Note the use of make's -s option. > That is supposed to suppress the "make: Entering/Leaving directory ..." > diagnostics. make's man page only says that -s stops the executed commands being printed. > I usually say a few words about the release in place of FIXME. > That makes it a little more human. Sure, but is there a reason not to have this text in NEWS or supply it in some other way that doesn't force another manual step? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
