[Geoserver-devel] 2.8 beta-release progress

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

Kevin was kind enough to kick out GWC 1.8-beta ...

Sadly our GeoServer build had trouble... this a beta, to ensure that master
is in a releasable state (so consider the following a successful test,
showing we have some release problems):

1) geoserver-release-jira

See #37
<http://ares.opengeo.org/jenkins/view/geoserver/job/geoserver-release-jira/37/console>
-
appears to be api difference for new Jira instance, I went with a manual
release.

2) geoserver-release

See #80
<http://ares.opengeo.org/jenkins/view/geoserver/job/geoserver-release/80/>

Some problems building PDF

Build finished; the LaTeX files are in build/latex.
> Run `make all-pdf' or `make all-ps' in that directory to run these through
> (pdf)latex.
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> entering extended mode
> libpng error: Not a PNG file
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> entering extended mode
> libpng error: Not a PNG file


And ending with:

copying artifacts to /var/www/geoserver/release/2.8-beta
> cp: cannot stat
> `/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/geoserver-release/src/target/release/../../../doc/en/user/build/latex/manual.pdf':
> No such file or directory
> Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure


I bet we are no longer building the PDF (or the PDF failed) leaving me
empty directories at
http://ares.boundlessgeo.com/geoserver/release/2.8-beta/

Looking at previous releases like 2.7.2
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.7.2/> we do
not end up publishing the PDF, although it was listed on ares (as
geoserver-2.7.2-user-manual.pdf
<http://ares.boundlessgeo.com/geoserver/release/2.7.2/geoserver-2.7.2-user-manual.pdf>
).

I would appreciate assistance viewing the release scripts, and suggestions
on what to fix.