Okay, SVN dist date is easy enough to check, based on SVN commit timestamps. I'll converge on those. I'm not so concerned about precision as I am about consistency, especially to inform the filling in of the gaps.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:49 AM Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Billie that the technically-correct-ASF-policy-date is > the SVN dist date. Similar to Josh I don't think this is a place where > we need a lot of precision and anything within a week or two is good > enough. > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > I noticed that there were a few missing releases in our DOAP file, and I > > also noticed lots of discrepancies between what's in JIRA as the release > > date, when the tag was created, when the announcement was made (and on > > which list), what the date was in reporter.apache.org, and what the date > > was in DOAP. > > > > There are 3 places we record the "official" release date: > > * doap_Accumulo.rdf > > * JIRA > > * reporter.apache.org > > > > Reporter actually has a sync-to-JIRA feature (but it's off-by-one... I'm > > investigating that), and I'd like to just use that feature rather than > try > > to manually keep things sync'd up there also, so that leaves just 2 > places > > to update. > > > > There are several sources we can use for the "official" release date: > > * SCM tag date > > * Date uploaded to SVN dist > > * Announce email date > > * Vote date > > > > I don't like using the vote date, because that doesn't say when the > release > > occurred, just when we agreed on what will comprise the release. SVN dist > > might technically be the best date to use, but it's a pain to track that > > down, and it typically precedes the announcement by at least 24 hours. I > > think I like announce date the best, but we actually forgot to announce > on > > at least one occasion, and we sometimes announce on different lists (dev@ > > user@ announce@). > > > > Even if they are wrong, I'd like to sync up these different locations, so > > they don't show different dates for a release... and I'd like to decide > on > > a standard from now on, so we know what a date means, and it doesn't vary > > so much. > > > > -- > busbey >
