Well, I see now that while the "Proposed Release Announcement" section was empty, the actual release announcement was posted at the end -- not sure how I missed that.
So the only thing that needs attention is whether we should add those explicit "things to check" to the vote email. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > A recent Apache email discussed releases, and lead me to the following > email. I was particularly interested in the "some things to check > before voting" section which I think we should incorporate into our > own voting messages. [Continued after the inline message below....] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-syncope-dev/201208.mbox/%3C502144C9.3070408%40apache.org%3E > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Discussion thread for vote on <version> release, with SVN source tag > (r1370332). > > For more information on the release process, check out > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html > > Some of the things to check before voting are: > - does "mvn apache-rat:check" pass on the source > - can you build the contents of source release zip and SVN tag > - do all of the staged jars/wars/zips contain the required LICENSE and > NOTICE files > - are all of the staged jars/wars/zips signed and the signature verifiable > - is the signing key in the project's KEYS file and on a public server > (i.e. http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/syncope/) > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > I looked around at our own site, and found Tobago's release checklist > page [1] which has a release checklist, a voting email template, and a > release template. It was also the most obvious result of a Google > search on "myfaces release checklist." > > [1] http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/release-checklist.html > > Our general Myfaces release information is referenced from the CWiki > "Release a MyFaces Project" page[2] with specific release notes for a > specific version stored on the wiki, such as the Myfaces Core Release > 2.1.8 page located here[5]. > > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYFACES/Release+a+MyFaces+Project > [3] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/CoreRelease218 > > The core release notes are great, although I think we should probably > put the release announcement in there. Right now the two I looked at > only have placeholder text rather than an actual example announcement. > I'll go ahead and do that for 2.1.8 and 2.1.1 on the wiki as these > are the ones most likely to be used a template for new releases. > > I'd like to suggest that we also add text to these wiki documents > similar to the Syncope voting email above listing out things to check > before voting. What do you think?
