I think that, since the vote for 2.4 has already concluded and the artifacts 
have been published to the apache.org mirrors, we would need to cut a 2.4.1 
release.

-Aaron Coburn


> On Mar 17, 2015, at 9:05 PM, Andy Kurth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for not sending this earlier.  Aaron P. and I identified a problem
> today affecting cluster reservations when DHCP is used for public IP
> addresses.  The IP addresses in the cluster_info file added to each node
> may be wrong.  Essentially, vcld is caching some information to lessen the
> load on the database.  As a result, an old IP address may be saved in the
> cluster_info file and scripts an image creator saved in a cluster image
> will certainly fail.  The fix to the backend code is trivial.
> 
> Because this problem would cause unpredictable results for end users and
> may cause certain cluster environments to be unusable, I would advise
> against using 2.4 RC3 without modifying the code.  How should we handle
> this?  I could be mistaken, but I am not aware of any hard-set rules
> compelling us to release a version after a voting period ended if a known
> problem is identified before the general public can obtain the release.
> Unless there is a policy standing in the way, I propose creating RC4
> tomorrow morning and closing a vote Monday 3/23 at the same time of day the
> candidate is created.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
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>> Based on the following votes, the Apache VCL community has voted to release
>> Apache VCL 2.4:
>> 
>> Josh Thompson (PMC member)
>> Dmitri Chebotarov (PMC member)
>> Alexander Patterson
>> Aaron Coburn (PMC member)
>> Andy Kurth (PMC chair)
>> Aaron Peeler (PMC member)
>> 
>> That's +5 from PMC members and another +1 from the community.  There were
>> no 0
>> or -1 votes.  That gives a total of 6 to pass the vote.
>> 
>> I'll go ahead and create the release artifact and publish it to our
>> distribution location. I'll give it around 24 hours for all of the mirrors
>> to
>> pick it up and then send out an [ANNOUNCE] message.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>> 
>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 4:11:56 PM you wrote:
>>> The issues identified in RC2 plus a few minor items have been fixed.
>> RC3 is
>>> now available for testing and voting upon.  Again, basically the same
>> email
>>> with the voting deadline changed.
>>> 
>>> As Andy mentioned in his reply to the "release nearly ready" thread, all
>> of
>>> the (non-documentation) JIRA issues associated with 2.4 are now resolved.
>>> Here is our first try at voting to release 2.4.
>>> 
>>> I created a release artifact based off of trunk.  I copied that branch
>> to a
>>> tag under the tags area of the repo that is named release-2.4-RC3:
>>> 
>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/vcl/tags/release-2.4-RC3/
>>> 
>>> The artifact is an export from that tag with the addition of Dojo Toolkit
>>> version 1.6.2 with a custom VCL profile and Spyc both bundled in the web
>>> code. The artifact, MD5 and SHA1 sums, and my GPG signature of it are
>>> available from my space on people.a.o:
>>> 
>>> http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/apache-VCL-2.4-RC3/
>>> 
>>> The list of resolved JIRA issues associated with this release can be
>> found
>>> under 2.4 on the Change Log page in the staging area of the CMS:
>>> 
>>> http://vcl.staging.apache.org/docs/changelog.html
>>> 
>>> This is the first release to include an installation script.
>> Installation
>>> instructions on using the script and doing things manually are on the
>>> following page in the staging area of the CMS:
>>> 
>>> http://vcl.staging.apache.org/docs/VCL24InstallGuide.html
>>> 
>>> The INSTALLATION file in the release artifact only contains information
>> on
>>> using the script.
>>> 
>>> *NOTE* To use the installation script with RC3, you need to give it the
>>> --rc=1 option (which is not included in the output of --help).
>>> 
>>> I was able to successfully do test installs and upgrades, including image
>>> deploying and capture.
>>> 
>>> The directory created by extracting the RC3 artifact is
>> "apache-VCL-2.4-RC3"
>>> (after extracting, you may want to rename it to "apache-VCL-2.4" if you
>>> want to test the manual instruction from the online installation guide).
>>> Licensing information about perl and its required modules, php and its
>>> required modules, and mysql are stated as "system requirements" according
>>> to the information under "System Requirements" on
>>> http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html.
>>> 
>>> After we finalize a release vote, the staging part of the CMS will be
>>> published to update the production site.
>>> 
>>> Please vote by 5pm (EST) on Tuesday, March 17th to publish this release.
>>> Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote if you have at least done
>>> some testing.  However, only votes by members of the PMC are binding
>> votes.
>>> 
>>> [ ] +1 yes, release VCL 2.4
>>> [ ] 0 dunno
>>> [ ] -1 no, don't release VCL 2.4 (provide reasons if this is your vote)
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