This page describes how to move a component from the commons sandbox to the commons proper. This page assumes you're already an Apache committer with karma for both jakarta-commons and (not just jakarta-commons-sandbox). If you don't have karma, ask for it or get someone to help you.
- Start vote a proposal thread on the commons-dev mailing list, stating reason reasons for promotion of the component.
- After addressing any concerns about the proposal, start a vote on commons-dev mailing list.
- After vote passes, send announcement with time of move and remind everyone to have any files in the component checked in by that time.
- Move projec project in SVN
- Tag the current version
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- Check-out jakarta-site
- edit jakarta-site/xdocs/index.xml and news.xml. Put a news of "Commons-XX XXXX graduated from Sandbox to Commons-Proper"
- edit jakarta-site/docs/.htaccess and add a "Redirect permanent" to have automatic redirection from your projects sandbox to the proper website. Search for "vfs" to have a template.
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$svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/site |
- Edit xdocs/site/news/news-xxxx.xmlEdit xdocs/index.xml
And follow docs/README.txt to regenerate the site. Check if it looks good.
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