One other discrepancy which would need to be fixed before the 0.10 release.
The distribution archives are not complete. The listing here only contains the convenience package as explained below: http://archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/0.9/ It needs to also have a copy of the 0.9 re-release as explained below, especially the actual "*-sources" package. The complete set of files are available at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/ but they were not copied to the 0.9 space. Perhaps there was a glitch with the archiving process around that time. -David On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 01:23:05PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > I did some archeology detective work to find how we ended up with three > separate release packages. > > Aside: Way too much time wandering around broken email archives, grrr. > With some of the links, i at least used the Apache URL Shortener to go via the > Gmane message-id service. I found that some links to there do still work. > However, if they have gone then we should be able to get the message-id from > the Shortener (i thought that it was by appending "?action=display", but no) > and then use some other email archive to lookup with the message-id. > Surely lists.apache.org can do that but i cannot find how. > > So on our download page we link to two separate packages: > > apache-forrest-0.9-sources.tar.gz > apache-forrest-0.9-dependencies.tar.gz > > Yet the $FORREST_HOME/main/build.xml only generates apache-forrest-0.9.tar.gz > > Our "How_to_release" doc does not mention the separate "*-sources" and > "*.dependencies" packages. > > Looking behind the scenes at: > http://archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/ > Shows that the "*-sources" and "*.dependencies" packages are dated 2012-11-21 > and the other one is dated earlier at 2011-02-01. > > The date 2011-02-01 is our original 0.9 release date. > > The source of our download mirrors page was edited around 2012-04-20 > to link to those separate packages. > > Going back to the mail archives around March April 2012 shows that we needed > to re-release 0.9: > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:55:13 +1100 > From: David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> > To: dev@forrest.apache.org > Subject: [Proposal] re-release 0.9 with proper source code package > Message-ID: <20120329065513.GA6677@igg.local> > See its linked message from Roy that: > > ... jar files of dependencies -- they are NOT our product and they > > MUST NOT be present in the source code package that is voted on for > release. > > We did our original release of apache-forrest-0.9.tar.gz on 2011-02-01 > then followed up with a proper "sources-only" release on 2012-04-19. > > Note that the "How_to_release" doc and the main/build.xml have not been > updated to do that. > > Why were those packages amended on 2012-11-21? > I reckon that that is probably this: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1239 > utilise svnpubsub for Forrest distribution area > > Then around 2013-11-29 a distribution maintainer asked about the separate > packages > and could we provide a combined one: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1244 > "Fat tar" for easier installation > > I did provide the instructions there to enable one of the Forrest PMC to > combine the packages into one and deploy that to the dist area. > I presume that no-one did, otherwise the apache-forrest-0.9.tar.gz > would have a date newer than the original of 2011-02-01. > So that is considered to be a convenience archive, but not the one called > for in FOR-1244. > > Gavin commented yesterday in that FOR-1244 wondering about the release > packaging. > I will link from there to here to help explain. > > Good luck, i hope that this history helps. > > -David >
