This is the vote to approve the 4.0.0 TS2 "release", which is really
a "Test Snapshot" to test the release process and legal artifacts and
such. The files we are voting on are the second pass, now using the
"TS2" suffix as this is the second pass and the TS instead of RC to
clarify that this is a Test Snapshot more than a traditional Release
Candidate (which has clearly been confusing for quite a few people).
The main reason for this second pass is that there were a few old
Copyright statements hanging around that have now been taken care of.
So, we're restarting the vote.
To reiterate, the main things we need to review for this test
snapshot are:
1. PGP signature (.asc) and MD5 checksum (.md5) file validity
2. Proper license headers, NOTICE, and LICENSE files
3. Basic unarchive and run success
This is not meant to be a release in the traditional sense with a
branch, testing cycles, and so on, and is not meant to be a reference
point or used by end-users. It is an important part of the incubation
process for OFBiz at the ASF and after we approach a test snapshot
release we will submit it to the larger incubator community and the
incubator board for review.
Please note that everyone is welcome to vote, but only PPMC members
have "binding" votes. We'll leave this open until at least the end of
day on Monday to give people the weekend plus some work week time to
review it.
For more details on this release, including links to files to
download, see the Confluence page at:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/wAE
Note that the best place to download the files is from the
people.apache.org links there.
-David
