These are assorted remarks about making a release Releases -------- 1.) Full server source distribution (CVS export + delete client part + delete proposal + delete testsuite + zip) 2.) Binary war/jar distribution (ant full-dist + zip) 3.) Tomcat 4 bundled binary distribution (build.properties property catalina.dist must point to a clean Tomcat 4 installation + ant clean tomcat-4-install + zip) 4.) Tomcat 5 bundled binary distribution (build.properties property catalina.dist must point to a clean Tomcat 4 installation + ant clean tomcat-5-install + zip) 5.) Full client source distribution (ant clean package-src-all) 6.) Binary client distribution (ant clean package-bin-all) 7.) Ant WebDAV task (ant dist-ant + zip) Signing and MD5 --------------- for i in *.zip; do gpg --output $i.asc --detach-sig --armor $i; done for i in *.gz; do gpg --output $i.asc --detach-sig --armor $i; done for i in *.zip; do openssl md5 $i >$i.md5; done for i in *.gz; do openssl md5 $i >$i.md5; done Important --------- Rights and groups on distributions - group: jakarta - read access for everyone - full access for group