[hibernate-dev] starting release

[Sanne Grinovero]

Thanks Steve,
yes the failing release is a very good point. I'll consider doing the
same.. thanks for the explanation!

Cheers,
Sanne

On 4 April 2012 22:14, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> I have discussed this a few times now with individual folks.  Can't remember
> if we ever discussed it or not.  I should add this to the "releasing" wiki
> page...
>
> Sure I have thought about it.  In fact this is how I used to do releases.
>
> It comes down to the fact that things often go wrong during the actual
> releasing (Nexus validations fail, Nexus becomes unavailable, etc).  My
> approach is really about dealing with these possibilities.  To be honest,
> most of those problems have gone away now that I use Gradle. Using the "old
> approach", in those cases one has to make the appropriate changes, commit
> and retag.  But you are in a bad position there is someone has pushed since
> your original tag.  Actually this is what I used to use that stable branch
> for.  Basically I would release and tag from stable and commit/push any
> changes needed to "fix the release" only to stable initially; that
> essentially was the isolation.  But its a complex and largely unnecessary
> step I decided considering in the 10 or so releases I did using that
> approach not once ever did someone push changes after I had started a
> release.  Far easier IMO to just announce that you are starting a release
> and ask for folks to hold off pushing.
>
> Essentially your approach does the tag first, making an assumption that
> releasing from that tag will work.  You run into probems if the release
> process breaks down in anyway that requires commitable changes.  On the
> otherhand, I tag from a commit I *know* will work.
>
>
> On Wed 04 Apr 2012 02:21:40 PM CDT, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>
>> Just wondering  - did you consider tagging and then using a specific
>> commit id for the release ?
>>
>> So you wouldn't need to worry about this, you personally pick the
>> commit and don't care for subsequent commits.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sanne
>>
>> On 4 April 2012 18:13, Steve Ebersole<steve at hibernate.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Done.  You can push again.  Thanks
>>>
>>> On Wed 04 Apr 2012 11:17:57 AM CDT, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am starting the release process for ORM 4.1.2. Please do not push
>>>> changes to master for the time being. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>
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