On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Josh!  Do you know what is meant by the part about signing the
> announcement?
>

I think it just means creating a plaintext signature (of what? perhaps of
the email contents?) and adding that to the bottom of the email message.  I
haven't seen a lot of people doing this, so if you want to skip it that's
probably fine.


>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Joe Witt wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am sorry for the TL/DR nature of this but I'd really like to not
> >> screw this up and would like to document it well to make it easier for
> >> others to act as the RM.
> >>
> >> For the first release I didn't follow the step of announcing the
> >> release.  That was largely because I didn't understand how to.
> >>
> >> So this time I'd like to do it but I do have some questions.
> >>
> >> 1) Please confirm we should indeed send release announcements as a
> >> podling.
> >>
> >> 2) Can you explain what it means to have 'Announcments signed'?  [1]
> >> suggests
> >> "this may mean creating a plain text signature on the machine used to
> >> sign the release
> >> and then transferring this".  Transferring it to what?
> >>
> >> 3) Can you confirm the addressees of the announcement:
> >> - [email protected]
> >> - [email protected]
> >> - [email protected]
> >> - [REPLY-TO] [email protected]
> >>
> >> 4) How does one send an email from an @apache.org address?
> >
> >
> > Check out https://reference.apache.org/committer/email
> >
> > I have my local mail client presently set up (SMTP server) to send with
> my
> > apache.org. Previously, I think I used GMail's web interface directly.
> >
> > Your message below LGTM:
> >
> >
> >> 5) Here is the proposed message for this release:
> >> SUBJECT: [ANNOUNCE] Apache NiFi 0.0.2-incubating release
> >> BODY:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> The Apache NiFi team would like to announce the release of Apache NiFi
> >> 0.0.2-incubating.
> >>
> >> Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to
> >> process and distribute data.  Apache NiFi was made for dataflow.  It
> >> supports highly configurable directed graphs of data routing,
> >> transformation, and system mediation logic.
> >>
> >> More details on Apache NiFi can be found here:
> >> http://nifi.incubator.apache.org/
> >>
> >> The release artifacts can be downloaded from here:
> >> http://nifi.incubator.apache.org/downloads/
> >>
> >> Maven artifacts have been made available here:
> >>
> >>
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/org/apache/nifi/
> >>
> >> Release notes available here:
> >>
> >>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316020&version=12329373
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >> The Apache NiFi team
> >>
> >> ----
> >> DISCLAIMER
> >>
> >> Apache NiFi is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
> >> Foundation (ASF), sponsored by  Apache Incubator. Incubation is
> >> required of all newly accepted projects until a further review
> >> indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making
> >> process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful
> >> ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection
> >> of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that
> >> the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.
> >>
> >> +++++++
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#announcements
>

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