Thanks for asking the question. As you know this step was initially missed on M2 release day.
I don't know how the coordination was done in the past. I assume that Fred @ EF does the /releases/2020-03/ one and that Markus had historically done the EPP one. It seems what is needed here is for one of us to do both.
I assume I don't have access to /releases/2020-03/ and that Fred does have access to EPP's p2. Therefore, if, like /releases/2020-03/ directory I provide a ready to go compositeContentM3.jar/compositeArtifactsM3.jar in the EPP's p2 location then Fred can rename both at the same time?
Fred, does that work for you?
> A note of caution as well. [...]
At the moment I only have "For the final release, this composite p2 repository is being transformed into a flat p2 repository." in the process doc. I will read through the mentioned comments and make sure I expand on that.
I can then inspect the changes to the generated catalogs (and can
even test that they install). In this case the only significant
semantic change is in the JEE product and that looks correct
because I can see that did indeed change for M3:
In the ideal world, the timing of the generated catalogs is also
coordinated. This is less essential when there are no changes to
product definitions because the catalog uses the composites (for
the currently release cycle versions) so will see new content as
soon as there is new content in the composites. At a later point
in time, I remove this option for the generator:
A note of caution as well. On the release day, the
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/2020-03
repository transitions from being a composite to being a simple
repository. This has been a source of significant grief over the
years. See this comment for the most recent incident during the
most recent release:
Of course we all hope to avoid such an incident again, but it's
particularly problematic that such incidents occur precisely when
it's most essential that there not be a problem, i.e., on the
release day when users see the problems.
Thanks so much for stepping up to manage all this and for
transparently documenting the process!
Regards,
Ed
On 27.02.2020 20:02, Jonah Graham
wrote:
Hi everyone,
Our next milestone build is available for testing: EPP 2020-03
M3
Can someone on Mac please verify the Notarization for Mac is working
as expected. I have added the notarization step into the
build but I want to make sure it produced the correct
results.