Hi,

> My issue is really with the convenience binaries. Are reviewers really
> unzipping jar files to check the contents and checking the text in the
> pom files?

Well, I do that for most of the releases I review. Sadly, my experience is that 
it is not possible to automate. Dependencies have incorrect licensing; for 
instance, they claim MIT licensed but include GPL-licensed code. 

> What format are the pypi RCs supposed to be in? Are we sure that the
> apache prefix appears in the target pypi project?

See https://incubator.apache.org/guides/distribution.html - again, this has 
existed for > 5 years. However, PiPy is not an official release platform, so I 
assume not all incubating projects comply. If you find an issue, bring it up 
with the project, and I’m sure they will fix it.

> And the big binary tarballs that some teams ship, full of jars or
> other compiled components? Those can be a real time consumer to
> manually review.

From experience, automation can help, but not solve this issue.

Kind Regards,
Justin

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