Hi Daniel, Thanks for setting this up so quickly!
2013/3/19 Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> > Sebastian Schaffert wrote on Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 21:43:29 +0100: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > thanks for the friendly and helpful answer. > > > > 2013/3/19 Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> > > > > > You were expected to file an infra ticket prior to doing this (so that > > > commit mails get set up correctly) > > > > > > Do docs say that? > > > > > > > No, not that I am aware of it. I was following the following guidelines: > > - > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#release-distribution > > Right. And > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#understanding-upload > says "podling dist dir" and links to a definition of that. One or both of > those places should probably say that you may not create it yourself and > need instead to file a jira. > This would be very helpful, yes. :) > > That's for two reasons: mailer config and svnwcsub setup. I've just > made a tweak to the former - can you mkdir /release/incubator/marmotta > and confirm that your commits@ list receives a notification of that? > I tried it and the mail was delivered correctly. Thanks! > > I'm inclined to leave the latter as-is, though: one svnwcsub line per > podling. Which means the need for a jira ticket remains. > > Can you patch the incubator docs, then? > Unfortunately this is out of my scope, I am just the release manager for Marmotta and can only make suggestions to the incubator PMC. I will suggest a patch to the mailinglist tomorrow. > > > - http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html > > - http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html > > > > The first two documents both describe (among many other things) the SVN > > distribution repository. None of these places mention that I would be > > expected to file an INFRA ticket. Sorry if I overlooked yet-another > > document when preparing the release. Could you please point me to it so > we > > can include it in our release process? > > > > For starters http://www.apache.org/dev/release. > > There's no clear place explaining "you need to talk to us" (that's more > http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact#requesting-podling material), > but I suppose we could add a paragraph about that to > http://www.apache.org/dev/release#heads-up. Or just change the authz > file so podlings _can't_ create their own dist dirs. > Maybe the best option would be to somewhere have a checklist which services are actually to be requested for a podling. Would have made it easier for us. I think the first link (...#requesting-podling) is the best place for this. > > > So to solve the situation, could you please setup the commit mails > > correctly? I just realised that my colleague had already filed an issue > > Done. But leave the jira open please, svnwcsub still needs to be set up > for your ^/release area. > Ok. > > > with INFRA last week, it just was not answered: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5994 > > > > It's in the queue. Actually there are about 4 "create an svnpubsub dist > dir" jiras in the queue, which is good for us (we can batch them - this > particular task isn't scripted yet). > > Great :-) Greetings Sebastian
