Hi, I'm one of the ones over on general@incubator that was commenting about the 0.8.0 release not being perfect. To avoid all the traffic on the other lists could we talk about that here?
I think there was some agreement releases had to have the complete source in a form that enables development to be done using that source, there is some doc on this at http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what and also some helpful commentary in this email http://apache.markmail.org/message/3odlybipss4wnczl - "we require that the release include all of the source code for the product (every component of that product in a format that can be edited for later maintenance of that product as open source)" Also, when doing a release its required that at least three PMC members review and vote on the release to verify that its good. There's some commentary on that in this email http://apache.markmail.org/message/njray5dbazwcdcts - "we require a person to download the signed source code package, compile it as provided, and test the resulting executable on their own platform *before* voting +1 on the release" Looking at the 0.8.0 release vote i think that would be difficult to do because there are so many individual parts, probably too many for anyone to try to build them all, so i'm guessing no one did and thats why no one noticed that the source was incomplete. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ace-dev/201105.mbox/%3CBANLkTimw_15axkojKwVSVtdHfOPVB_fLEw%40mail.gmail.com%3E Other projects when releasing multiple modules like this include one big source distribution to enable building everything together just like you do when developing on an SVN trunk checkout. Do you think there could be one of those for ACE? Or If not and there was another release like the 0.8.0 one then on the release vote like that what exactly is it people should do to decide whether or not to vote +1? ...ant
