Based on the copyright/licensing exception I noted earlier today, I have to vote -1. I'd expect the incubating rat tool could have caught this, but it is principally invoked against incubating candidates.
Now that the mod_md config changes are in place, I suspect we are ready for a second attempt. Thanks for RM'ing! Bill On Nov 7, 2017 10:28 PM, "Daniel Ruggeri" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all; > > Please find the proposed 2.5.0-alpha release tarballs and signatures > at the following location. This release candidate was tagged from trunk > as of r1814469: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/httpd/ > > > I'd like to call a vote to release this alpha candidate. Please do note > - this is my first attempt at cutting a release and mistakes are likely. > Therefore, I'll let the vote run at least 10 days (possibly more as I > will be traveling to Dublin next week) and will greatly appreciate any > additional scrutiny the release tarball can be given. > > > > Some notes to share after having executed the process for the first time: > > * I'm not 100% sure on the proper syntax for an alpha candidate with the > release.sh[1] script. I used "./release.sh --tag 2.5.0-alpha alpha > httpd-2.5 2.5.0 '[email protected]". This seems to have produced > desired results. > > * I created two scripts[2] to automate the tagging of SVN and minor file > modifications associated with a release as well as the push of the > tarballs/signatures to the repo mirror. Unfortunately, I lack the karma > to commit to site/trunk. How do I obtain this karma? > > * I'd like to make some updates to the documentation[3] about how to > produce releases to point out the existence of the new scripts and make > the process more clear. Same note about karma to site/ applies. > > * The documentation mentioned to AP_SERVER_DEVBUILD_BOOLEAN to 0 for the > tagged release. I assume this still holds true for an alpha release. > > * Blockers for automation really only seem to live around credential > management (svn password and keyring passphrase) and the conducting of > the vote itself over email. Kudos to everyone involved for putting > together the scripting that already exists! > > * I'd like to create yet another script that does a pre-flight check for > a machine to ensure that the host it is run on has the dependencies all > of the above scripts need. Thing is, other than java for the docs build > and gpg... I'm not sure what those other things may be (or even if there > are any). Pointers welcome. > > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/site/trunk/tools/release.sh > > [2] http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/scripts/ > > [3] http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html > > > P.S. > > I'll be in Dublin next week if anyone would like to catch up! > > -- > Daniel Ruggeri > >
