2013/4/8 Ben Reser <b...@reser.org>: > 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. >
OK. >> 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. > Looks good. Thank you. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko
