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

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