The binary tgz should not be offered to assist in the review unless you're going to publish it as well, i.e. provide it as a download. Signing it will only make people think you're going to publish it. Not a showstopper. Something to consider next time.
IIRC, the actual artifacts that get published to maven should also be available to review. http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html Is kafka-0.7.0-incubating-candidate-3 the intended final tag? If not maybe it should just be kafka-0.7.0-incubating. Once this goes out you can never change it. Regards, Alan On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: > Hi, > > This is the third candidate for the first incubator release for Apache > Kafka, version 0.7.0-incubating. This fixes ALL rat failures and also > adds a standard .rat-excludes > files along with rat scripts to Kafka. > > It fixes the following issues: > http://people.apache.org/~nehanarkhede/kafka-0.7.0-incubating-candidate-3/RELEASE-NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by noon Oct, 18th, 6 pm > > Note that we are voting upon the source (tag), binaries are provided > for convenience. > > Source and binary files: > http://people.apache.org/~nehanarkhede/kafka-0.7.0-incubating-candidate-3/ > > The tag to be voted upon: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/kafka/tags/kafka-0.7.0-incubating-candidate-3 > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/kafka/KEYS > > Note that the Incubator PMC needs to vote upon the release after a > successful PPMC vote before > any release can be made official. > > Thanks, > Neha
