I think these concerns preclude the entire idea of a release. A release should be something that users can use as a dependency. . .like a maven coordinate. I think you guys should wait until you have made these decisions. . .and then cut a binary.
On 1/31/12 5:36 PM, "Jakob Homan" <jgho...@gmail.com> wrote: >Giraphers- >I've created a candidate for our first release. It's a source release >without a binary for two reasons: first, there's still discussion >going on about what needs to be done for the NOTICE and LICENSE files >for projects that bring in transitive dependencies to the binary >release >(http://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg32693.html) >and second because we're still munging our binary against three types >of Hadoop, which would mean we'd need to release three different >binary artifacts, which seems suboptimal. Hopefully both of these >issues will be addressed by 0.2. > >I've tested the release against an unsecure 20.2 cluster. It'd be >great to test it against other configurations. Note that we're voting >on the tag; the files are provided as a convenience. > >Release notes: >http://people.apache.org/~jghoman/giraph-0.1.0-incubating-rc0/RELEASE_NOTE >S.html > >Release artifacts: >http://people.apache.org/~jghoman/giraph-0.1.0-incubating-rc0/ > >Corresponding svn tag: >http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/giraph/tags/release-0.1-rc0/ > >Our signing keys (my key doesn't seem to be being picked up by >http://people.apache.org/keys/group/giraph.asc): >http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/giraph/KEYS > >The vote runs for 72 hours, until Friday 4pm PST. After a successful >vote here, Incubator will vote on the release as well. > >Thanks, >Jakob
