On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 16:07, Senaka Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Andreas Veithen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 07:33, Senaka Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Andreas, >> > >> > Many thanks for reminding. >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Andreas Veithen >> > <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Unfortunately, the release candidate doesn't yet meet the (new) ASF >> >> requirements for a valid release :-(. See [1]: >> >> >> >> "Every artifact distributed by the Apache Software Foundation should >> >> and every new one must be accompanied by one file containing an >> >> OpenPGP compatible ASCII armored detached signature and another file >> >> containing an MD5 checksum." >> >> >> >> Although the document doesn't mention Maven artifacts explicitly, the >> >> common interpretation [2] of this requirement is that every individual >> >> Maven artifact must be signed. >> > >> > I will get this clarified, to how this should be done. Signing Maven >> > artifacts should not be done manually, it should be done automatically >> > through Maven itself. And, I don't see many apache projects doing the >> > same >> > as of now. >> >> >> >> Also, I think that the key used to sign the distributions doesn't meet >> >> the new requirements in terms of key type and length. >> > >> > Yes, that's a concern, the required key-lengths were revised, and >> > mentioned >> > at the very top of [1]. There were some instructions to how you could >> > upgrade, if you already have a weak key. >> >> >> >> These requirements are part of the reasons why I migrated Axiom, Axis2 >> >> and Sandesha2 to the (new) standard ASF release process based on >> >> maven-release-plugin and Nexus. It automates most of the stuff and >> >> Nexus does some validation of the artifacts already when staging them. >> >> I think we should migrate Rampart as well, at least for the next >> >> release. >> > >> > So, have you got the Maven Release plugin to sign artifacts as >> > mentioned, >> > plus upload them to ASF's Maven repositories in a single go? >> >> Yes. Here are the documents that explain how this is executed for >> Axiom and Axis2: >> >> http://ws.apache.org/axiom/devguide/ch02.html#d0e326 >> http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/release-process.html >> >> Sandesha2 pretty much sticks to the standard procedure: >> >> http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html >> >> As mentioned earlier, before this could be applied to Rampart, you >> would have to request inclusion of org.apache.rampart in the staging >> profile for Axis2. > > Thanks for the information. For the benefit of someone who's reading this > mail thread, the documents that Andreas linked also explains how you could > publish the artifacts on the staging repo etc. > > Having said that, I am yet to figure out the legitimacy (hard to find the > people during the holiday season, :-).. ) of a release without having the > Maven artifacts signed, for projects that are not under the Maven PMC (I > found out that they do need something as such). > > But, as you have mentioned in your first reply to this thread, I'm +1 for > introducing the same concepts for Rampart. My concern is that, if these > requirements are not mandatory, we could go ahead with this release, instead > of delaying it (some other releases, Synapse is also waiting for this > AFAIK), and fix these inconsistencies for the next release.
I think these requirements are mandatory for all projects. What is sure is that if the Maven artifacts are not signed, you will get a friendly reminder about that: http://markmail.org/search/?q=%22your+MAVEN+repo+artifacts%22 We can't simply ignore this. > However, in general, everything under [1] are mandatory, and enforced by the > ASF. > > [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html > > Thanks, > Senaka. >> >> > [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Senaka. >> >> >> >> Andreas >> >> >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html >> >> [2] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/repo/faq.html >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 05:37, Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Devs, >> >> > >> >> > This is the vote for Apache Rampart 1.5.1 release. >> >> > >> >> > Please review the signed artifacts: >> >> > >> >> > http://people.apache.org/~shankar/rampart/1.5.1/dist/ >> >> > >> >> > The m2 repository is available at: >> >> > http://people.apache.org/~shankar/rampart/1.5.1/m2_repo/ >> >> > >> >> > The site is temporarily hosted at: >> >> > http://people.apache.org/~shankar/rampart/1.5.1/site/ >> >> > >> >> > SVN Info: >> >> > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/axis/axis2/java/rampart/tags/v1.5.1 >> >> > >> >> > It was tested against Axis2 release candidates hosted in: >> >> > http://people.apache.org/~veithen/1.5.4/ >> >> > >> >> > Here's my +1 (binding) to declare the above dist as Apache Rampart >> >> > 1.5.1 >> >> > >> >> > thanks, >> >> > Shankar >> >> > >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > 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] >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Senaka Fernando >> > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://apache.org >> > >> > Associate Technical Lead & Product Manager - WSO2 G-Reg; >> > WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> > >> > E-mail: senaka AT apache.org >> > P: +94 11 223 2481; M: +94 77 322 1818 >> > Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/senakafernando >> > Blog: http://senakafdo.blogspot.com >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> -- >> Senaka Fernando >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://apache.org >> >> Associate Technical Lead & Product Manager - WSO2 G-Reg; >> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> >> E-mail: senaka AT apache.org >> P: +94 11 223 2481; M: +94 77 322 1818 >> Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/senakafernando >> Blog: http://senakafdo.blogspot.com >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
