It's from the thread called "Whatever happened to commons-io 2.5?" A few people stepped up to give the necessary permissions and committed his GPG key.
On 25 April 2016 at 17:10, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Agreed, VFS 2.1 has been too long in the making. We can release ASAP > without fixing more bugs IMO. RERO and all. > > As an Apache committer, your are also an Apache Commons committer, so feel > free to create JIRAs, fix bugs and so on. > > There might be some karma issues with a non-PMC member performing a > release, and I think we just went through this (sorry, I'm in settling in a > new house, not much time to dig in the ML archives). > > Does anyone recall? > > Gary > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > There are presently 171 resolved issues sitting in commons-vfs2 > > 2.1-SNAPSHOT, with 4 outstanding (none of which look like blockers to > me). > > > > The lack of any release of commons-vfs2 in years has been a big problem > > downstream. This past weekend, I was again annoyed by bugs that have been > > fixed (but not release) which is spurring me to take some action. There > > have been emails reaching back as far as 2014 asking when the next > release > > might be, not to mention the fact that vfs-2.0 was released in 2011 (!). > > > > History aside, I'm reaching out today to: > > > > 1) See if anyone on the PMC has the cycles to volunteer as RM. > > 1a) If not, how can you empower me (or others) to make the release on > > your behalf. > > 2) Understand, specifically, what (if any) roadblocks exist to release > > this version. > > > > Thanks. > > > > - Josh > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
