I think I'm gathering a good picture of what is expected here. I'll try to
update the Confluence page as I go.

I'm hoping to get started tomorrow and package it early next week.

Max

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:16 PM, siddharth anand <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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