On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:33 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure I understand why the checklist needs to be specific.
The checklist should include only items which might block the release of the artifacts under review. Expanding it to include unrelated concerns imposes an unnecessary cost each time someone goes through the checklist. Let's not make the release process any harder than it needs to be. > It does not necessarily need to be a separate check item. > Just a reminder that the N&L files are specific to the distributed > items (SCM or release artifact). I'm apprehensive that a single checklist which tries to be all things to all projects will ultimately prove unworkable. The design pressure is building and eventually, customization will be the only answer. Nevertheless, I've added a second draft to http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ReleaseChecklist which attempts to address your concerns. Here are some of the changes: * Pluralize a few items to allow for the possibility that the release candidate VOTE encompasses multiple archives -- accommodating both projects which release multiple source archives simultaneously and projects which make convenience binaries available. * Require that LICENCE and NOTICE be "correct for each distribution". To my mind this is superfluous because it was implied by "correct", but it's certainly something that projects get wrong a lot. * Simplify the testing checklist item to `[ ] All tests pass.` This is weaker, in that it does not require building and testing of the *source* archive, but it is more compatible with more configurations. The checklist item shouldn't require that all tests pass for *all* archives, because that doesn't work with platform-specific binaries; this language was the best general compromise I could come up with. * Change the "license headers" item to specify "source files", in order to resolve an incidental ambiguity with regards to whether "files" meant archive files or source files. Can you live with this second draft? Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
