Sorry for not voting yet. I've just been slammed. I'll take a look at RC2 tomorrow.
Mike On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Denes Arvay <de...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to encourage everybody to check the RC2 and provide feedback about > it. It's quite simple, just do the following steps: > - Download the artifacts from the people.apache.org link I've sent in the > initial email (see below) > - Check the md5/sha1 checksums > - Verify the signature: import the KEYS file (link below, howto in the KEYS > file), then verify with gpg --verify apache-flume-1.8.0-src.tar.gz.asc > and gpg --verify apache-flume-1.8.0-bin.tar.gz.asc > - Check that the downloaded artifacts match the ones in the maven staging > repo (org.apache.flume:flume-ng-dist:1.8.0, link to the repo below) > - Extract the source tarball, compile and run the unit tests (note: some > flaky tests might break, you might want to use > the surefire.rerunFailingTestsCount flag) > - Extract the binary tarball. You should be able to run it with one of the > bin/flume-ng* scripts. (e.g. ./bin/flume-ng agent -c conf -f > conf/flume-conf.properties.template -n agent > -Dflume.root.logger=DEBUG,console) > - Check the generated documents in the doc/ directory in the binary > artifact. > - Check the CHANGELOG and RELEASE-NOTES files. > - Check that all the 3rd party jars are listed in the LICENSE file (the > jars can be found in the binary package's lib/ directory) > > Of course if you do only a subset of these checks that'd be also a great > help. > > Thank you, > Denes > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:52 PM Denes Arvay <de...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Hi Flume Community, > > > > This is the eleventh release for Apache Flume as a top-level project, > > version 1.8.0. We are voting on release candidate RC2. > > > > It fixes the following issues: > > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/flume/release-1.8. > 0-rc2/CHANGELOG > > > > *** Please cast your vote within the next 72 hours *** > > > > The tarball (*.tar.gz), signature (*.asc), and checksums (*.md5, *.sha1) > for > > the source and binary artifacts can be found here: > > http://people.apache.org/~denes/apache-flume-1.8.0-rc2/ > > > > Maven staging repo: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/ > orgapacheflume-1026/ > > > > The tag to be voted on: > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=flume.git;a=commit;h=43a3c40 > > > > Flume's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > > https://www.apache.org/dist/flume/KEYS > > > > Thank you, > > Denes > > >
