[Zope3-dev] Re: Releasing Zope 3.4
Baiju M
mbaiju at zeomega.com
Wed Apr 11 07:47:07 EDT 2007
Stephan Richter wrote:
>On Tuesday 10 April 2007 18:12, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
>
>> - I think we need to tag all individual packages as well.
>>
>> - If so, WHO tags them? (I would hope that we can determine
>> maintainers for each zope.* package who will start maintaining the
>> release cycles of the individual packages). Tagging basically also
>> means updating setup.py.
>>
>> - Who physically creates the eggs and uploads them to the CheeseShop
>> and/or download.zope.org?
>>
>> - That last point raises another question: Do we upload things to the
>> CheeseShop, to download.zope.org or to both?
>>
>>
>
>Reading those questions convinced me that we are not ready for an egg-based
>release. The overhead for the release manager is far too great. even with the
>simple approach it took about 0.5-1 day; I would think it takes more than
>that now.
>
>I think we need some tools for this first. something that allows us to say:
>for packages x, y, and z do the following: Create a tag, change setup.py, and
>then create the egg. If we do not have this tool, every release will be a
>major pain.
>
>
Now we have almost 140+ eggs, and this is for the first and last time we
are going to
release all eggs together. Individual releases of these eggs won't be a
problem.
Regards,
Baiju M
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