On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:54 AM, James Dixson <dixs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok folks I believe we have our first Apache release candidate for Etch: > apache-etch-1.0.2-incubating. > > With this release we have updated all of the licensing/headers for the > project to meet Apache standards, fixed a few bugs and validated under > Windows, OS X and Linux (Ubuntu). > > Complete listing of what was fixed is here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=12310835&fixfor=12313456 > > > We *have not* in 1.0.2 changed the package names from "etch" to > "org.apache.etch", that change will be in our next release, > apache-etch-1.1-incubating, which will be ready for release in another 2-3 > weeks. We did not change the package names to maintain compatibility for > folks running the pre-apache 1.0.x releases who are only interested in > bug-fixes. > > We have met the threshold for committer votes in the following threads: > > http://n2.nabble.com/-vote--Release-1.0.2-td2294748.html > > http://n2.nabble.com/-vote--Release-1.0.2-(second-attempt)-td2360187.html<http://n2.nabble.com/-vote--Release-1.0.2-%28second-attempt%29-td2360187.html> > > > The candidate files can be found here: > > http://people.apache.org/~dixson/apache-etch/1.0.2-incubating/<http://people.apache.org/%7Edixson/apache-etch/1.0.2-incubating/> > > Each file has a MD5, SHA1 and a Signature. > > Finally, the output from RAT is also included in the "*-rat-output.txt" > file. > > > -- > james > > I can't find a DISCLAIMER file or the Incubator disclaimer text anywhere in the release artifacts. If it is there and I've just missed it then +1 as the rest of it looks good, but if the disclaimer is missing then that probably needs to be fixed. A couple of other non-blocking comments: Nothing in the readme or releases notes says what Etch does, might be nice to have a brief sentence or two saying what the project is about. There's a Cisco copyright at the top of all the source files, can that be moved to the NOTICE file as described at: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers ...ant
