Gang, I think we are almost ready to cut a first Apache release.
Before going down the Apache release way, I'd like to get some preliminary review of the Apache Zest distributions. We won't do this for future releases but I think it's worthwile doing it before the first one. So, please checkout the `develop` branch and: ./gradlew -Dversion=2.1-RC0 assemble -x signArchives Then check the Source and Binary Distributions in build/distributions/ Passing a non-0 and non-SNAPSHOT version to the build is mandatory so that ReleaseSpecification is applied to the distributions and to the generated manual. Please use a recent JDK 7 and note that you'll need a valid Asciidoc installation to build the manual. If you want to skip this last step, add `-PskipAsciidocIfAbsent=true` to the build command line. The manual will then be missing from the Binary Distribution. Here are some checks to do: - inclusion of releasable modules only - licensing issues (see http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html) - build from the source distribution, see README - manual in the binary distribution - goOffline helpers in the binary distribution - use jars from the binary distribution Thanks in advance for your feedback! Cheers /Paul
