+1 Thank you.
James Fredley On 2026-11-12 21:12 UTC Jonny via dev wrote: > Dear development community, > > I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Geb 8.1.0 release. > > This release includes a new test-containers <https://testcontainers.com/> > module, an experimental Playwright module, and a Geb/Spock AI Agent skill > <https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/tree/master/.agents/skills/geb-spock>. > It also updates several core dependencies and includes some nice bugfixes. > See the release notes in the source for more details at > https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/blob/GEB_8_1_X/doc/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/140-project.adoc#810 > . > > The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r89290): > Source release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/geb/8.1.0 > > Additionally, there are staged Maven artifacts at > https://repository.apache.org/service/local/repositories/orgapachegroovy-1126/content/org/apache/groovy/geb/ > . > > Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/groovy/KEYS > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Geb 8.1.0. > > Reminder on ASF release approval requirements for PMC members: > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval > Hints on validating checksums/signatures (but replace md5sum with sha256sum > or sha512sum): > https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html > > You can also use the reproducibility scripts > in etc/bin/test-reproducible-builds.sh, with one caveat: some of the > example projects > <https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/tree/GEB_8_1_X/geb-examples> which > have recently been brought into the main Geb repository from the old GitHub > Geb organization <https://github.com/geb/> do not build reproducible jars > and will report as errors. The buildSrc directory also builds a > non-reproducible jar. None of those artifacts will be released as binaries > to maven central. All of these differ only because of timestamp differences > in the jars. The source distribution itself, which is the release artifact > being voted on, is reproducible, as are all of the binaries that we will > publish for convenience through Apache's nexus repository. Just note that > the reproducibility script will report an error on those artifacts. > > Since Geb is a subproject of Groovy, the same Groovy PMC votes that are > required for a Groovy release will be required here. > > The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at least > three +1 PMC votes are cast. > > [ ] +1 Release Apache Geb 8.0.0 > [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok > [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Geb 8.0.0 because... > > Here is my vote: > +1 (binding) > > Best, > > Jonny >
