All, The next in our series of 1.7.0 prereleases is now posted for testing and siging: 1.7.0-alpha2. These are cut from trunk, and the magic rev is r1137713. The buildbots were green at that rev, and all tests pass for me locally. You can find them here: http://people.apache.org/~hwright/svn/1.7.0-alpha2/
As with the previous alpha release and there are obviously known issues (but hopefully fewer of them!) The purpose is to give distributors and downstream consumers a concrete milestone against which to test, as well as vet our release processes on ASF infrastructure. As you may expect, these prereleases are intended for intrepid users and testers only. Since 1.7.0-alpha1, I've made a number of changes to the release scripts, so please make sure the distribution tarballs contain everything you'd expect them to. I hope to get signatures from folks by the end of Wednesday, June 22, and then do the public announcement. Historically, we've not required a full set of signatures for alphas and betas, but it would be nice to get at least some coverage besides just my own. As you send in your signature announcement, please note any issues you found with the alpha release (these will be included in the public announcement). Please send sigs here: http://work.hyrumwright.org/pub/svn/collect_sigs.py -Hyrum
