Hi Karl, I justed wanted to make sure that everything is according to our policy. :) I got a wrong impression from this thread, sorry :(
So everything is cool and fine. Great and thanks Carsten Karl Pauls wrote: >> If we want to vote on something, we have to vote on the tarball. That's >> the only thing that counts in terms of distributions/releases. > > Well, that is what we plan to do if nobody has any issues with the > release candidates. This is not a vote but a heads-up. > >> This also means, if these release are meant to be the final 1.0.0 >> release, the archive we vote on has really to be 1.0.0. With the >> consequence that if the vote should fail, there will be no real official >> 1.0.0 release, the appropriate changes have to be made and the next >> archive to be voted on will be 1.0.1. > > Right, and to catch a failing vote early we are asking people to look > at what we are planning to release. > >> If these are "potential" release candidates (I dont find a better >> english term right now but I hope you get what I mean), than labelling >> them rc or rc1 is fine, but this also means once we want to release a >> 1.0.0 a new archive has to be cut and a new vote has to be started. > > True. This is what we are going to do. > >> Now, I know this sounds like a pain but its the offical release policy >> and wants you are adapted to it, its really easy as you don't have to do >> any "magic" to change the release archvie from 1.0.0-rc to 1.0.0 etc. >> Just create the release with the appropriate version number, but it out >> to a place where the committers/pmc members can download (this can be a >> public place), let them vote and either declare it official or >> withdraw it. > > Well, I might be missing something but that is exactly what we want to > do. The only step in between is that we make release candidates > available for people to look at. That might be overkill but this will > be our first official release so I'd rather like as much feedback as > possible. > > regards, > > Karl > >> Carsten >> >> Richard S. Hall wrote: >> > For those that don't know, these release candidates are just tags in >> our >> > SVN repo; they can be found here: >> > >> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/releases >> > >> > -> richard >> > >> > On Jul 12, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Karl Pauls wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Rick and I have been working some more on the 1.0.0 release. I just >> >> created release candidates for the first batch of subprojects we need >> >> to release before we can release the framework namely, >> >> >> >> pom-1.0.0-RC >> >> bundleplugin-1.0.0-RC2 >> >> org.osgi.core-1.0.0.-RC >> >> shell-1.0.0-RC >> >> shell.tui-1.0.0-RC >> >> bundlerepository-1.0.0-RC >> >> >> >> We intent to call a vote on them soonish so please let us know whether >> >> there are any showstoppers. >> >> >> >> regards, >> >> >> >> Karl >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Karl Pauls >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Carsten Ziegeler >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > -- Carsten Ziegeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
