Apache Policy/Folklore: When voting for a release, you are supposed to download the source, build it, and verify that it is more or less as advertised. In this case, observing that typing 'mvn' at the downloaded source builds and passes unit tests is about as good as it's going to get.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > >> >> On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> >> > +1 (on trust, really) >> >> Not to pick on Ted here, but this is not something you should do. If you >> don't have time to download and verify the artifacts, please don't vote, as >> the vote is meaningless at best. No vote is better than an unverified vote. >> >> -Grant > > > I agree. > > But we are talking about releasing a component that is not used yet. That > means that the down-side to the release is essentially nil. >
