On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:18:17 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
Daniel,
The talk Eric Raymond gave at FUDCon 1 included information about a pet
project of his called "shipper" which is addressed at automating all of
steps 1..5. I have no idea if the script will work for you, but its
existence shows that You Are Not Alone.
The problem addressed by shipper is much simpler. Automated uploading (or
submission to a few specific hardcoded backends like freshmeat) of files
and/or sending of e-mail announcements. It doesn't handle steps 2 and 3
(wait for somebody to sign and push the packages and then collect the
final package MD5 fingerprints for the announcement), if there is no
backend that allows for such automation, and if the specific release
process is not implemented in shipper anyway.
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