I have an hour or two to help you through this process Paul. Are you around on IRC?
On 24 Nov 2010, at 20:34, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Paul Davis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> This email is to request that the CouchDB developer community provide >> comments on moving forward with the 1.0.2 release. I am instructed to >> specifically ask that developers check the NEWS and CHANGES files in >> the 1.0.x branch to ensure that they list all of the applicable >> information. >> >> Thanks, >> Paul Davis >> > > This is *NOT* a vote on releasing 1.0.2. > > I've gone through the directions for preparing a release and I'd like > to get some feedback on the artefacts themselves. This means things > like verifying the tarball signature, the sha1 and md5 checksums and > whether the tarball is missing anything. > > To check the signatures, you can use the directions at [1]. The > artefacts themselves are located at [2]. > > To check what's in the tarball vs what's not you can do this: > > $ mkdir tmp && cd tmp > $ svn export http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tags/1.0.2 > $ wget http://people.apache.org/~davisp/dist/1.0.2/apache-couchdb-1.0.2.tar.gz > $ tar -xvzf apache-couchdb-1.0.2.tar.gz > $ diff -r apache-couchdb-1.0.2 1.0.2 > > I repeat, this is *NOT* a vote on the release. We're merely working on > improving our bus factor. > > Thanks, > Paul Davis > > [1] http://people.apache.org/~davisp/dist/ > [2] http://people.apache.org/~davisp/dist/1.0.2/
