On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan Hsieh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I was reading into what goes into a release, and based on this I think of
> > have to -1 the release from an admin point of view.
> > - mvn rat:check looks like it has problems (there are also some in the
> > 0.92.0 release) -- attached to this email.
>
>
> I went through a few.  Looks like its complaining mostly because of
> empty files, files it can't read the apache license in (because its
> got xml preamble), etc.  I'd say this is important but my guess is
> that 0.90.5 wasn't much better.  I'd suggest we could file an issue to
> fix this in 0.90.7/0.92.1 but that maybe its not enough to sink the
> release?
>
>
I chatted with some of the apache veterans, and I'm going to stand by the
-1 unless the licenses are fixed.  It should be trivial fix.

See this: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
"What files in an Apache release do not require a license header?"

That said, release votes are by majority, and there is no veto:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html

Jon.
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// Jonathan Hsieh (shay)
// Software Engineer, Cloudera
// [email protected]

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