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
