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
