Thank you for the information Ant. I was wondering more about the checks each developer is doing before voting a +1. I'd like to choose a set of checks to perform myself when a vote is called but I can't think of tests other than the ones that I stated earlier...
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, ant elder <antel...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Florian MOGA <moga....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Could you let me know in what consists your process of reviewing a > release > > candidate? Until now, I've performed a full build, ran the samples, > checked > > for license headers. Haven't found any guidelines on the website or wiki. > > Are there any other checks you're doing on the source distribution? What > > about the binary distribution? > > > > There are not that many rules or requirements to voting for a release > so a large amount of it comes down to personal preferences. A lot of > the doc about it is spread about the ASF so its hard to point at a > single page for more information > > Some minimum rules are: > - anything being released must have all the source required to create > it also being released. > - it must be cryptographically signed > - it must contain the Apache LICENSE and NOTICE files, and meet the > ASF legal requirements > - the project must have voted to release it > > Then there are a lot of subjective quality issues. Do things work, > have documentation, samples which work etc. How important those are > might depend on the type of release, for milestone type releases > perhaps they don't matter so much, for 1.0 type releases maybe you > want things looking pretty good. Some people look at things really > closely, others may not and if someone they trust has already voted +1 > then they do too. > > Another rule is that there are no vetos on releases so something can > be released as long as it gets at least three +1 votes and more +1s > than -1s. > > In my experience Tuscany can be a tough place to do releases compared > to other projects as it takes a large amount of time to make a release > and then can be hard to get the votes. > > ...ant >
