Eric great to see this coming together! I'm -1 on this candidate but it looks like you're getting close:
You should add a "how to release" page to the wiki which details the process of creating a release. This will help you and fellow release managers who follow, it also serves to document the steps you used to create the RC. Whirr is a good example: https://cwiki.apache.org/WHIRR/how-to-release.html I went through the incubator release checklist, there are a few things missing: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-list You are not distributing release manager KEYS afaict, typically it's here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/mrunit/dist/KEYS?revision=1080137&view=markup I do see it here though which is great: https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/esammer.asc Also your announce email should include details on your KEYS for easy access, see whirr as an example: https://cwiki.apache.org/WHIRR/how-to-release.html Perhaps just point to here? https://people.apache.org/keys/group/mrunit.asc Actually look through that page, there are a number of steps that you need to add (such as tagging svn for the release candidate). You should add a "how to contribute" page to the wiki which includes build instructions. It's probably also a good idea to have a basic blurb in the README.txt or a BUILD.txt detailing how to build the source. Not sure if it's strictly necessary but you should have md5/sha1 files for the artifact, it's a common practice. Patrick On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> wrote: > Should we release (or, more specifically, call a vote on incubator general > to release) mrunit-0.5.0-incubator-dist-rc1.tar.gz? > > Fixed bugs: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MRUNIT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5.0%22+AND+resolution+in+%28Fixed%2C+%22Won%27t+Fix%22%2C+Duplicate%2C+Invalid%2C+Incomplete%2C+%22Cannot+Reproduce%22%2C+Later%2C+%22Not+A+Problem%22%29 > > Artifacts: > http://people.apache.org/~esammer/mrunit/ > > I'm a +1. > > Thanks! > -- > Eric Sammer > twitter: esammer > data: www.cloudera.com >
