I'd be available to help with the release process along with any karma mangling needed.
On 20 January 2018 at 06:36, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de> wrote: > Guten Tag Robert Middleton, > am Samstag, 20. Januar 2018 um 04:00 schrieben Sie: > > > As prompted by the discussion last week about the state of log4cxx, is > > there a current blocker(apart from Thorsten's time) halting a release > > of log4cxx/regular maintenance? > > The PGP-keys of whoever is releasing need to be added to the following > file BEFORE actually releasing. Don't know who is allowed to do that > under which circumstances, regarding web-of-trust and all that. > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/logging/KEYS > > Releases need to be published in the dist-repo in the end and I don't > know how that is organized as well. Somewhere in the Apache docs I've > read that only PMCs are allowed to do that? > > Actually doing a release seemed pretty complicated to me, therefore I > created the branch "release_scripts" to document/automate what I know > needs to be done. Those scripts are capable of creating a release > branch, handling version numbers, Maven stuff and publishing signed > artifacts to vote on in "dist-dev". Not sure currently if I already > addressed site commits and the stuff after a vote has passed, like > moving artifacts from "dist-dev" to "dist", is not handled/documented > yet. > > Handling of LT_VERSION is still unclear to me, I tend to simply > increase it by one like was done in the past and add that to the > release scripts I've created. While that might be logically wrong, it > would work always without breaking anything. > > So in the end, getting to the point to vote on a release is pretty > close, everything afterwards is still somewhat unknown to me and in > general, I'm not familiar with such complex release processes. The > only thing I do in my projects is merging between branches without the > need to ask anyone for anything, because there's no one else. ;-) > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > Thorsten Schöning > > -- > Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de > AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ > > Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 > Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 > Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 > > AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln > AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
