Thanks Yonik, please find answers below. Apache RAT: ---- No, we didn't use. I'm not very sure if that's used by latest incubator projects. Need to research more, looks more for ant, mvn based builds?
Release Discussion: ---- We have been discussing on the Discord channel and initiated the Iggy community (PPMC) Voting thread before sending to IPMC. Seems other incubator projects are also operating this way, example https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] Going forward we can very well start a mailing list [DISCUSSION] thread for Iggy Dev community before the [VOTE] Currently this is what we've planned to follow: 1. Discuss on Discord channel. being a small and growing community, we've observed much active and faster collaboration on the channel. However for important topics we're encouraging people to use GitHub Discussions https://github.com/apache/iggy/discussions. 2. Initiate Iggy PPMC [VOTE] thread 3. Summarize [VOTE][RESULT] at Iggy PPMC level 4. If Iggy PPMC approves, send the [VOTE] request to IPMC 5. Summarize [VOTE][RESULT] at IPMC level 6. If IPMC approves, send [ANNOUNCE] about the Release to IPMC, Iggy PPMC https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html This seems to be the general process followed by other Incubator projects. Website: ---- If you are referring to iggy.rs website, it's old and we will be redirecting it to iggy.apache.org in coming weeks. We've a PR open for the contributor guide. And yes we'll be adding all the mailing lists as well, that should be the way for people to subscribe to get updates dev@ users@ maybe we should have news@ not sure if that required. Any thoughts? https://github.com/apache/iggy/pull/1687/files Best, Kranti On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM Yonik Seeley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Iggy devs, > > As I said on Discord, congrats on reaching the point of your first ASF > release! That’s a big milestone. > > I’ve started looking at the release candidate, and in the meantime had > a couple of questions: > > - Is running Apache RAT still considered a best practice for > incubating projects? If so, has it been run for this release? > > - Was there a public discussion around cutting the release? While not > technically required, it’s generally a good sign that development > decisions are happening in the open. It was a bit unexpected to see a > release candidate and [VOTE] show up without any prior context. (For > reference, here’s an example of Lucene’s recent release discussion: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/1g4ob0sfbdhdjwhxhr3r3fqt4bjj4czr ) > > Unrelated to the release: > > - The website should probably also link to the Apache mailing lists? > > - I noticed the “newsletter” signup on the website -- what does that > refer to? Something like that would typically need to be developed > collaboratively by the community and signed off by the PMC. > > Thanks, > -Yonik >
