[development] Tarballs not created - What is missing?

[Cog Rusty]

Thanks merlin, I guess you mean http://drupal.org/node/109181
I'll try dww's suggestion.


On 3/30/07, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
> Cog Rusty wrote:
> > I am currently the sole maintainer of the Greek translation
> > (drupal.org/projects/el).
> >
> > In February, a user (fubar, http://drupal.org/user/107150) committed
> > an (unfinished) Greek translation for Drupal 5 to HEAD without my
> > knowledge. At the time there was no DRUPAL-5 branch, I noticed those
> > files in CVS accidentally and I had a short conversation with fubar in
> > an issue (http://drupal.org/node/125682).
> >
> > So, I decided to make fubar's work a 5.x-dev release.
> > - I branched his files to a new DRUPAL-5 branch in CVS
> > - I added a new project release for that branch.
> > I waited 24 hours and no -dev tarball was created.
> >
> > In CVS, the DRUPAL-5 branch exists and contains the right files.
> > In projects, there is only a pink entry with no files for el
> > 5.x-1.x-dev in "view all releases"
> > (http://drupal.org/node/11417/release) and there is no tarball.
> >
> > My next attempt was to add something myself into that branch and to
> > make a specific release, so:
> > - I committed a readme.txt file containing a "work in progress" notice
> > to the DRUPAL-5 branch.
> > - I tagged all the files of the DRUPAL-5 branch as DRUPAL-5--0.1-alpha
> > - I created a project release for that tag.
> > No luck. Another pink entry appeared for an el 5.x-0.1 release
> > containing no files, and no tarball was generated.
> >
> > There have been several days since. What am I missing?
>
> The release system currently has a problem that if translations do not
> correctly parse, no tarball is created, but there is also no feedback about
> this. There is an issue (sorry don't have nid offhand but it's searchable) in
> the project.module queue about this.
>