All, The next in our series of 1.7.0 prereleases is now posted for testing and signing: 1.7.0-alpha3. These are cut from trunk, and the magic rev is r1143483. The buildbots were green at that rev, and all tests pass for me locally[1]. You can find them here: http://people.apache.org/~hwright/svn/1.7.0-alpha3/
The number of known issues since the first couple of alpha releases has decreased, and the purpose of this release continues to be 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. The new release scripts appear to be behaving themselves, though any reports to the contrary would be of great interest. I hope to get signatures from folks by the end of Friday, July 8, 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 this release (these will be included in the public announcement). Please send sigs here: http://work.hyrumwright.org/pub/svn/collect_sigs.py Thanks, -Hyrum [1] I did have trouble with the perl bindings, but I think that it's a local issue, since all of the tests failed. Confirmation one way or the other would be nice.
