A quick look over the JIRA release notes reveals new features and important
improvements that call to be announced.
I think the release guide needs to be updated to remove the optionality of
blog creation and avoid confusion. Thanks for pointing that out.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:53 AM Anton Kedin <ke...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas, I haven't made it. I read that step of the guide as optional
> ("..if needed for this particular release..."). I am not sure if anything
> specific needs to be announced or highlighted for 2.14. I can go over the
> closed Jiras and create a blog post if it's expected.
>
> Regards,
> Anton
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:38 AM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Anton,
>>
>> Thanks for working on the release.
>>
>> I don't find the release blog in https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9157 or
>> elsewhere?
>>
>> This should be part of the release candidate [1] and I wonder why we keep
>> on missing it in RCs. Is there something that needs be be fixed in [1]?
>>
>> The reason why I now check for this as one of the first items is that we
>> traditionally have done poorly communicating releases to users when this is
>> actually very important. The blog needs many eyes to make sure we capture
>> what matters in a way that makes sense to users.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://beam.apache.org/contribute/release-guide/#write-the-beam-blog-post-and-create-a-pull-request
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 4:25 PM Rui Wang <ruw...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Tried to verify RC1 by running Nexmark on Dataflow but found it's broken
>>> (at least based commands from Running+Nexmark
>>> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Running+Nexmark>).
>>> Will try to debug it and rerun the process.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Rui
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 2:39 PM Anton Kedin <ke...@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> Please review and vote on the release candidate #3 for the version
>>>> 2.14.0, as follows:
>>>> [ ] +1, Approve the release
>>>> [ ] -1, Do not approve the release (please provide specific comments)
>>>>
>>>> The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes:
>>>> * JIRA release notes [1],
>>>> * the official Apache source release to be deployed to dist.apache.org
>>>> [2], which is signed with the key with fingerprint
>>>> 89E2FFCAE7E99CF6E6827CFEF7349F2310FFB193 [3],
>>>> * all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [4],
>>>> * source code tag "v2.14.0-RC1" [5], [6]
>>>> * website pull request listing the release [7], publishing the API
>>>> reference manual [8].
>>>> * Python artifacts are deployed along with the source release to the
>>>> dist.apache.org [2].
>>>> * Validation sheet with a tab for 2.14.0 release to help with
>>>> validation [9].
>>>>
>>>> The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority
>>>> approval, with at least 3 PMC affirmative votes.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Anton
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12345431
>>>> [2] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/beam/2.14.0/
>>>> [3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/beam/KEYS
>>>> [4]
>>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-1080/
>>>> [5] https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/v2.14.0-RC1
>>>> [6] https://github.com/apache/beam/tags
>>>> [7] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9157
>>>> [8] https://github.com/apache/beam-site/pull/591/
>>>> [9] https://s.apache.org/beam-release-validation#gid=1082148452
>>>>
>>>
