A few general notes to the community about Apache releases, since this is the first release. Fundamentally, release notes apply to source code. Although the svn tag is typically what you think about for a "release". The actual release, from an ASF perspective, is the source archive prepared by the release manager. Quite complicated in this case, since there are so many release archives (e.g. https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-010/org/apache/aries/blueprint/blueprint/0.1-incubating/blueprint-0.1-incubating-source-release.zip ) Actally building all of these projects is a pain in the rump...
BTW, I sometimes diff the source "release" archive against the svn tag. Note that several of the release archives contain a DEPENDENCY file that isn't in svn. I don't see an issue releasing with the DEPENDENCY file, just pointing out that there can be differences... I've sampled the signature/checksums -- they look good. RAT output looks good. Build is painful, but worked. I see a few issues with the LICENSE files, however: 1) jpa-0.1-incubating includes two dual-licensed files (persistence-xsd.rsrc and persistence_2_0-xsd.rsrc). The LICENSE in the jar file properly reflects this. However, the files are also in the source. So, they also need to be included in the source LICENSE file 2) Since Apache will not redistribute these files under GPL, we must explicitly choose the license we are applying to these files. As the license explains in these two files by including the following: "[Contributor] elects to include this software in this distribution under the [CDDL or GPL Version 2] license." 3) org.apache.aries.transaction.manager-0.1-incubating.jar contains Geronimo and HOWL class files. However, the jar file does not properly reflect this in the LICENSE/NOTICE files. Geronimo should be fine, I think the Geronimo transaction notice file only refers to the geronimo project. However, the HOWL license needs to be included in the LICENSE file. Base on the above, I'm -1. I didn't see any other issues... --kevan On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Jeremy Hughes wrote: > I've staged a release candidate for Aries (Incubating) v0.1. The > following Aries top level modules are staged and tagged in > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/aries/tags/ at revision > 932654. The artifacts are in two staged repos. > > Modules staged at > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-008/ > are: > > parent > eba-maven-plugin > testsupport > util > transaction > web > application > jmx > jpa > samples > > Modules staged at > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-010/ > are: > > blueprint > jndi > > The RAT and IANAL bulid checks passed. > > The vote will be open for 72 hours. > > [ ] +1 > [ ] +0 > [ ] -1 > > Thanks, > Jeremy
