David, all,
when will we vote for a new Test Snapshot Release?
Here is a list of open tasks (some of them are minor and/or optional),
based on feedback from the Incubator's guys:
*** From Leo Simons ***
1) You're shipping various libraries and stuff which I know include
NOTICE files of their own, but those notices are not found or referenced
anywhere outside their jars (for example ant.jar has a
META-INF/NOTICE.txt). I would say the NOTICE file should point to those
other notice files that exist somewhere deep within such a big
distribution, but I think that's maybe not a legal requirement.
2) I downloaded the tgz. I always get annoyed when a software release
doesn't extract into an obvious name. Eg `tar zxf apache-of* && cd
apache-of*` should work. Probably a religious subject.
3) the statistical sample (random clicking) of files I opened all have
"copyright 2001-2006 The ASF". I suspect that's wrong, since IIRC ofbiz
wasn't @ apache in 2001. The year 2001 should probably be replaced by
the year when development of ofbiz started @ apache.
4) even if you don't branch, you should really do an `svn tag` for any
release (even RCs). Tagging is basically free, and it provides that much
more clarity on 'what is what'
*** From Robert Burren Donkin ***
5) FYI a source distribution is required but i'm assume that you know
how to svn export
And here are my comments:
#1: completing the NOTICE file is the last big task that we have to
do... and I'm not sure to understand what we have to do to complete it.
#2, #4 are suggestions that we can include to the TSR process (as
documented in the doc site) and can be considered when preparing the
release files.
#5: even if I don't agree with some of Robert's arguments for asking
this, I think that we can easily create such a file for the release
#3: if you want I can work on this... what is the correct copyright
notice that should be used instead?
Jacopo
