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 >
