On 28 March 2012 19:27, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is an important note from the PMC. > > We were in error to call this thread a vote, and this is my fault. > > To get things clear: > > - The PMC does not vote on binary packages. The PMC only votes on > release artefacts, which are always source packages. > - The Windows binaries are being provided by Dave Cottlehuber for > convenience only, and do not constitute a release by the PMC. > - We will host the Windows binaries in our project distribution > directory, but we will add a note to inform users that any binary packages > are not official releases and are provided for convenience only. > - Binary packages which are referenced by the project (from the website, > for instance) will always be built from a corresponding source release. > - Dave Cottlehuber has done astounding work getting us to this point, > and I am very pleased that so many people have provided feedback. In > future, Dave will be asking for testers, but we will not be referring to > this as a vote. > - With my PMC hat on, and my Release Team hat on, I can tell you that we > will try to run the release in parallel with any binary package testing. If > there are significant problems in either, we will abort both. We will also > try to announce the availability of binary packages along with the source > release announcement. > > Apologies that this has come so late in the thread. Be assured that it does > not change anything, and we are still moving forward as planned. But it is > important, as a PMC, that we get our terminology right, and set > expectations appropriately. > > Thank you, > > N
Firstly thanks everybody for the efforts in testing this - it gives me a much greater level of comfort than a year or so ago when I had the first few test runs. Windows CouchDB gets over 1000 downloads a month so it's great to have a few more eyes onboard! Noah no worries about the paperwork, we need to keep things clean & tidy. Given that the 1.2.0 source release has been aborted, let's wrap this (don't mention the V-word or the R-word) & have another run at testing binaries for the next source round. I'm looking forwards to seeing 1.2.0 roll in the very near future. Thanks again! A+ Dave
