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
>
>

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