[Zope3-dev] Re: Releasing Zope 3.4

[Baiju M]

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