On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> > RC4 for the ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating release is available at:
> >
> >
> http://people.apache.org/~robweir/odftoolkit-release/odftoolkit-0.6.1-incubating/
> >
> > The release candidate is a zip archive of the sources in:
> >
> >
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/odf/tags/odftoolkit-0.6.1-incubating-RC4/
> >
> > We're voting on the odftoolkit-0.6.21-incubating-src.zip.
> >
> > The SHA1 checksum of the archive is
> 6d2508ec9310b3975f9419baedcddbd5728513fd.
> >
> > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache ODF Toolkit
> 0.6.1-incubating.
> > The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority
> > of at least three +1 ODF Toolkit PMC votes are cast.
> >
> > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating
> > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
> >
> >
> > If the vote passes, and the IPMC approves the vote as well, we'll also
> > distribute pre-built binaries and JavaDoc as a convenience to users.
>
> +1 from me.
>
> I did the following:
>
> 1) Downloaded the release ZIPs and associated hashes and signatures
>
> 2) Verified the integrity of the release files against the signatures
> and hashes, with gpg,  md5sum and sha1sum.
>
> Note:  the above is a critical check that we should all be doing for
> every release.   I actually found an error when doing this, that I had
> not updated the KEYS file on
> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/odftoolkit.   Fortunately this
> was easy to fix without invalidating the release vote.
>
> Note:  We should drop the SHA1 hashes in the next release and move to
> SHA256.
>
> 3) Verified that the source release had correct NOTICE, LICENSE and
> DISCLAIMER files.   Verified that the pre-built JARs in the bin and
> doc packages had these files in their META-INF directories.
>
> Note:  PMC members we should be checking these with every release as
> well.  These are the items that every release must have.
>

Maybe we should create a checklist and tick it of as part of the
build/release process?
And make the ticked off checklist part of the release.
Similarly it can be used by those of us testing a release build..

Yeah, I know,... horribly formal... but it would help.

>
> 4) Build the src package cleanly on Windows XP with Java 8 and
> -Ppedantic.  No compile or test errors, no RAT warnings.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>



-- 
Cheers,

Ian C

Reply via email to