Hi Markus, 

If you add it to the index without a version and wait ~ 15-30 minutes for the distro caching to run you will be able to run a prerelease of unreleased stuff.  (It may be slightly longer if the farm is heavily loaded. The job is here: http://jenkins.willowgarage.com:8080/job/_rosdistro-build-cache/buildTimeTrend) 

If you could add this to the docs that would be great.  

Tully


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Marcus Liebhardt <marcus.liebhardt@yujinrobot.com> wrote:
Hello fellow releasers!

Wanting to bring in my first bloom release as smooth as possible, I tried to do a pre-release before releasing my package for the first time. However, after several failed attempts I finally gave up and did a normal release.

We wrote down some instructions  about how to do this in Groovy, but they seem to be outdated by now. Furthermore, the instructions about doing a first time release don't mention the option of pre-releasing. Hence I wonder, if such instructions for the new release pipeline exist? If not, could we write them down?

Best regards,
Marcus

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