Voting on releases is one of the few things that the ASF requires formal policies to be followed. The reason boils down to ensuring that the foundation can protect developers in the event of a legal dispute resulting from a release. It is critical that we follow the processes as defined, which include actually verifying the release is valid before voting.
A vote thread needs to have the essential information within it to enable to community to evaluate and vote. Nobody should vote unless they have performed the necessary checks on the artifacts. Where are the artifacts we are voting on? They need to be referenced in this email thread to provide a traceable reference. Note that the minimum level of checks before voting +1 are: 1.1 Checksums and PGP signatures are valid. See the Release Signing dev documentation. 2.1 Build is successful including automated tests. The expanded source archive is expected to build and pass tests. 3.1 DISCLAIMER is correct, filenames include "incubating". See the Podling Branding Guide. 3.2 Top-level LICENSE and NOTICE are correct for each distribution. See the Licensing How-To, plus various pages under Legal Affairs. 3.3 All source files have license headers where appropriate. See the ASF Source Header and Copyright Notice Policy. 3.4 The provenance of all source files is clear (ASF or software grants). See the IP clearance section of the Mentor's guide, as well as the Releases section of the Incubator's policy page. 3.5 Dependencies licenses are ok as per http://apache.org/legal/ See ASF Legal Previously Asked Questions. 3.6 Release consists of source code only, no binaries. Each Apache release must contain a source package. This package may not contain compiled components (such as "jar" files) because compiled components are not open source, even if they were built from open source. See http://incubator.apache.org/guides/release.html for more information, -----Original Message----- From: Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VOTE] Ripple release 0.9.26 Hi, I wanted to see if we can start a VOTE thread for making the first official ripple release. All the required LICENSE, NOTICE and headers have been updated. Please +1 if you think we should make a release. P.S: I am not a member of the Ripple PMC, so not sure if I can start the vote. Once the vote passes, we would also need someone in the PMC to upload package.
