On 27/02/16 23:33, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
Use this thread to discuss any issues with RC5 which is currently
under VOTE. If needed we'll also make Jira issues.
Under the corresponding [VOTE] thread - only reply with your vote,
e.g. "+1". It is a single vote for releasing all three artifacts at
once.
Releases are the high point a project.
PPMC members - feel morally obliged to vote!
Everyone else - help out - it's not "devs and users" - it's "community".
Don't forget what really matters when you vote +1 is that the release
meets the Apache requirements and then any additional local community norms.
A quick and not complete summary of what a VOTE entails:
** Source
The source artifact is the thing being released.
Binaries and git are secondary.
People voting must download the source artifact and check it.
do the signatures on the source archive check out?
does the commit id lead to the same sources?
** ASF licensing policy
Much of this code being is released for the first time so LICENSE and
NOTICE are mostly new.
does the NOTICE file contain all necessary attributions?
is there a correct LICENSE and NOTICE file in each artifact (both source
and binary artifacts)?
** Build
does the build of the source artifact actually produce the binaries?
check the dependencies.
** Process
Support the release manager!
The minimum is 3 +1 votes with a majority in favour.
The RM decides about what to do about comments.
Does the quality level meet the group norms?
("can we live with it?" and not "is it perfect?")
https://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
Andy
