Please see the following thread at Apache Forrest which explains the problem with conducting our release vote on a package that contained not only our project sources but also contained other binary files. That thread links to an important discussion at Apache Incubator, etc.
Subject: [Proposal] re-release 0.9 with proper source code package http://s.apache.org/mCW There would be a similar situation for the Cocoon-2.1.11 release vote. -David