* Reuben Thomas wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:17:44PM CET: > On 16 March 2011 16:09, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> > >> 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.
Please don't rely on such hacks to avoid automatic upload. It is very important to be able to double-check everything before things are cast in stone. I've been burnt before (but I don't use the gnulib method (yet)). > > 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? Yes. For example, I may want to thank people in the announcement, highlight some things differently than I would in a NEWS file. Or repeat something from an older release that users reading NEWS would easily be able to find. Cheers, Ralf
