Hi Nick, Thank you for the comments. Coincidentally, received your mail after send the vote result... I am not intential ;) So, we have to prepare RC4 and initialize a new vote in the dev mail list, isn't it?
2011/12/13 Nick Burch <[email protected]> > On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Devin Han wrote: > >> After two RC version, a new candidate for the ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating >> release is available at: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~**devinhan/odftoolkit-release/** >> odftoolkit-0.5-incubating-rc3/<http://people.apache.org/%7Edevinhan/odftoolkit-release/odftoolkit-0.5-incubating-rc3/> >> > > Ideally we should have MD5 and SHA1 hashes for all of these files > (currently missing) and GPG signatures (only available for the -src). Any > chance you could upload these too? (These could be added now, it wouldn't > need a re-vote, but they should be added before release) > > In the all the zips, LICENSE.txt and HEADER.txt seem to have very broken > line endings. Inside the jars the files look fine, so I'm not sure what's > up there. . Might not be relase blocking, but should be looked at - are the > svn props correct on them? > > > One likely blocker though is the names of the jars and poms within the > artifacts. At Apache, we vote not only on the state of the source code that > goes into a release, but on the release artifacts themselves. The voted on > artifacts are then moved straight to dist if approved. The problem is that > these files contain jars with -rc3 in their names, and if the vote passed > the files would need to be -FINAL instead. As the file names are inside the > release artifacts that won't be changed, that's a problem. > > I think therefore we need to re-cut the release with artifacts with the > correct names, then do another vote. That could also be a chance to fix the > line endings in the release files, and include the hashes and signatures > from the start > > (If you look on general@incubator at some of the other podlings doing > releases, you'll hopefully see the way it's normally done for maven based > projects) > > > On a slight related note, I've setup the directory on people ready to > receive the final files (vote permitting), and added the KEYS file. It's > /www/www.apache.org/dist/**incubator/odftoolkit<http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/odftoolkit>once > we're ready > > Nick > -- -Devin
