FYI, can anyone pictorially describe the release process (and post it on the apache airflow wiki)? I think that would eliminate a lot of confusion in the future and avoid a rehash of this email thread on the next release.
-s On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Hitesh Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > To add, the main source tarball should have instructions to generate the > sdist and bdist versions. Additionally, as part of the release process if > the plan is to publish to pypi (after the IPMC vote succeeds), then the > appropriate bits also need to be verified/voted upon. There are not exactly > counted as the official release bits but they do need to be verified as > part of the voting process to ensure that the bits do indeed map to the > source release, license/notice files are correct, etc. > > thanks > -- Hitesh > > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Bolke de Bruin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Thanks Hitesh. We discussed it with John Ament on the IPMC. Python has > the > > notion of 3 types of distributions, “source”, “sdist”, “bdist”, contrary > to > > Java that knows only two (source, bdist). We used to vote on “sdist”, > which > > was deemed incorrect. > > > > So, Max, indeed we need to vote on a tar.gz that contains build > > instructions in INSTALL to get to “sdist”. The build instructions should > > also contain instruction how to run the license checks by Apache Rat. > Most > > of the work probably goes in the build instructions and verifying they > > work, but it should not be much. > > > > Any other clarification required? > > > > Bolke > > > > >
