[Aperture-devel] 1.3.0 release lessons learned

[Antoni M. <ant...@gm...>]

Aperturians,

Just to let you know,

The 'normal' way of releasing maven artifacts to a maven repository
(mvn release:prepare and mvn release:perform) does not work for
Aperture on sourceforge. It took me about 4 hours to get the release
preparation work and and then after further 8 hours I gave up on
trying to perform it. The sourceforge server is very slow and the sftp
implementation of maven seems to be buggy. The release process would
fail at random (I actually wrote down my last five attempts: fail
after 59 minutes, then repeat and fail after 14 minutes, then 69, 18
and 74 minutes).

The trick was to use the release:prepare, then manually checkout the
code from the tag, and then

mvn source:jar, javadoc:jar, install
mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=mine::default::file:///home/antheque/maven

Then zip the local maven repository, upload it to SF and unzip.

Gotta write this on some wiki....

All kinds of comments welcome

-- 
Antoni Myłka
ant...@gm...