The release scripts are ready and validated as much as possible on a fork. We also have a candidate/initial .asf.yaml (Thanks Joe!) -- getting required reviews on 2.4.x will initially not be enforced (double edged sword: it helps the release process and CTR of special stuff)
The infra ticket is here for anyone who wants to follow: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-28586 On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 4:26 AM Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for prodding this... I still support the effort and offer to help with > whatever grunt work may arise. > > On Oct 18, 2026, at 9:51 AM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been thinking of coming back to this and working on the release > process aspect. Once it looks reasonably in hand against a fork I'd > like to move forward and maybe cut a low-stakes / non security > release. > > I wanted to give folks one more chance to raise any blockers/concerns, > either inline here or in the cwiki below: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/HTTPD/pages/311628229/Read+Write+git+migration > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 3:52 AM Ruediger Pluem <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 8/19/24 7:44 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2024, at 8:22 AM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote: > > To bring the convo back here out of cwiki -- in a world where we moved > to read/write git, with reviews happening in the context of a pull > request, does anyone else have any feelings about ditching or keeping > the STATUS file? > > > I created STATUS to help drive dev conversations toward a release. > A resource-based window on open issues, organized by tag or priority, > would be just as good and easier to maintain. +1 to a replacement. > > I suggest leaving STATUS as a static file containing a link to the new > resource > and maybe examples of using the GH API to download a local copy of issues. > > > Let's try this. If it does not work out we just change it to something else > that works better. > > Regards > > Rüdiger > > > > -- > Eric Covener > [email protected] > > > -- > Jim > "This is an outrage!" > Tony Harrison > -- Eric Covener [email protected]
