Hi Adrian, If you want to CANCEL the vote, you can send a mail to close it and start a new thread once you finish the second cut. It's a normal practices for our first around release.
I think you did a great job on the release. I'm around if you want to ask for help. Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:02 AM Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > We just tried to do a release of brave-karaf, but I think we realized > that many of us have no experience or no recent experience in ASF > releases. Some were giving +1s without doing any verification > whatsoever, and others possibly asking for more than required to pass > the release. First release was going to be bumpy, so no big deal. > However, I think there's some more to it. > > I think some confusion was caused due to the various incubator mailing > list discussions. Some are calling out projects for not doing things > right, and some are not clarified on topics about source vs binary > etc. The way I perceive these discussions are just that.. discussions. > I don't think we have to hold ourselves to standards higher than > graduated project (standard of practice). However, I think if this is > a valid interpretation, a mentor should step up as sometimes the > language in these discussions is distracting (ex blamey phrasing > happened in those threads and is strong language for an evolving > process especially around github). > > During our own release, we wandered, possibly into the correct > corners, but some topics feel more like guessing what we should do > than people knowing they need to. Lacking guidance, personally I > looked at a couple projects, jclouds and dubbo, and arbitrarily chose > the latter as the docs were polished. > https://dubbo.incubator.apache.org/en-us/blog/prepare-an-apache-release.html > This doesn't mean they were right, but seems they are right enough. > Maybe we can be right enough, too, as re-releasing and > meta-discussions are taxing timewise and emotionally. > > The main thing here is I think we should have not started without a > mentor present to help navigate these topics. > > The short of it is, that as a RM, I'd like to re-start the release > vote to clean the slate. I think that involves a "CANCEL" process > which I'll look up. However, I'd like a mentor to both be present for > questions and also participate in verifying the release and voting. > So, if someone can reply with their availability, I'm happy to > continue this and learn how to make the next one smooth. > > Best, > -A > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
