[csw-maintainers] Draft of the new release process

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 06.10.2009 um 15:47 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>  
> wrote:
>> I have finally written down the updated release process we
>> talked about in Oslo:
>>  <http://wiki.opencsw.org/automated-release-process>
>> It is mainly about the different uses of the experimental / testing
>> catalogs and automated builds.
>
> Yey!
>
> The mentioned script, cswrepo -- is it something that's planned or
> already implemented?

Planned :)

>> Trygve: I couldn't figure out what we intended with csw-build and
>> csw-release. As you have proposed that it would be nice if you could
>> add that to the Wiki. I have added pictures of the slides to refresh
>> your memory ;-)
>
> IIRC, There was talk about two scripts. One for the maintainers,
> something which would copy the ready packages into an appropriate
> place (bender:/home/newpkgs or equivalent) and format e-mails to the
> release manager. The one for the release manager would help the
> release manager do his thing, whatever that is. Trygve was interested
> in what steps are taken when a package is being released, in terms of
> updating information in various places (databases, files, etc).

As you see there is some more work to clarify this. Phil has already
written down something of this:
   <http://wiki.opencsw.org/release-process>


Best regards

   -- Dago