On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding 1.6.x, all versions (except a few 1.7 betas) between April > 2010 and February 2012 were announced on that list. This includes > 1.6.11 .. 1.6.17 and 1.5.9. Announcements ceased since March 2012 for > either 1.7.x or 1.6.x.
Yup I'm guessing that's about when Hyrum stopped doing all of them and other people took over. Since it wasn't documented it stopped happening. > Personally, I do not care about 1.6.x. > I hope that there will be a 1.8.x release sometime this year, and so > this topic about 1.6.x will become obsolete. Agreed. > A mailing list prefix does not matter much. What matters is whether > you want to distinguish this message from others on that mailing list. > So it is OK to have two prefixes. > > I agree that it does not matter for the announcements list as there > are no non-announcement messages in it. So, OK. I just noted that you > looked out of line here. I'm disinclined to make a change to our subject lines we've been using for so long unless several people think it's a good idea. Personally, I find them as more of a clutter than a help. A good subject line shouldn't need a prefix. But that's my view, if others thing it's useful we can change it. > I did not note that sentence. ;) > > Looking at the file history, that phrase was added in r1140689 (June 2011). > > I have not heard about such automated forwards elsewhere. It might be > that it was some typo. It does not say "automatically". So maybe it > meant that release manager forwards the message. > > Actually, > - Such forwarding does not happen. > - All announcements that were sent by Hyrum Wright explicitly include > "announce at apache org" in the list of addresses > > E.g. looking at announcement for 1.7.3, there is "View raw message" > link at the bottom of the page, where you can see the addressees list. > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201202.mbox/%3CCAFwo6TZonyaVvhFiHQ0__J=XsT_JdiE0QLF7=08pa3zv4e7...@mail.gmail.com%3E I've gone ahead and updated the documentation to make it more explicit. > BTW, > a minor thing that is also missing in a release is update to this DOAP file: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/doap.rdf?view=markup > > I mean, it still says "1.6.15". > > The DOAP file is used to publish project info here: > http://projects.apache.org/projects/subversion.html > > Description: > http://projects.apache.org/doap.html Updated and added to the list of things to update as part of the release. Thanks.
