On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> So can the other contributors/committers VOTE now?

Yes

> As oozie-user VOTE is already closed, what would be the best option at this 
> stage?
> 1. Go to genenral@incubator and vote there.
> 2. Vote in the same threadat oozie-user

Might as well show support/express reservations on the
general@incubator thread so it's in one place. IIRC the general@
thread cc'd oozie-dev. -C

> Regards,
> Mohammad
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Chris Douglas <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Mohammad Islam <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Oozie 3.1.3 (candidate 2)
>
> That's a pretty dire error in the documentation if that's the
> impression. Projects (and podlings) are responsible for their code,
> community, and releases. The PPMC certifies that the artifact
> represents an iteration of its progress by voting on a release in some
> series, just as a PMC does.
>
> The IPMC has a functionary, mundane role. It's supposed to make
> cursory checks: code being released respects the licensing
> requirements of dependencies, notices give accurate guidance to
> downstream consumers of that code, etc. Since the ASF is releasing
> that code under license, the idea is that IPMC members protect the
> foundation from common misunderstandings (e.g. if a podling thought
> they could release GPL'd code, someone else's code, etc.).
>
> Once the project has some experience with releases, a clear
> understanding of what the ASF wants w.r.t. community, etc. then
> podling graduates. Before that, the voting guidelines are necessary
> because the IPMC members are acting on behalf of the foundation. The
> vote from the PPMC expresses that the artifact represents their
> output. The vote from the IPMC certifies that the artifact won't get
> the ASF into legal trouble.
>
> Release votes are a strict majority per ASF bylaws. AFAICT, asserting
> that the IPMC votes are the only ones that are binding in the second
> round is just adding a layer of indirection to solve a counting
> problem. -C
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> I'm a bit confused here, I've thought that the significant votes where from
>> the IPMC.
>>
>> I guess most of the committers/contributors thought along the same lines.
>>
>> Thxs.
>>
>> Alejandro
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Chris Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The vote didn't attract any votes from contributors. As far as I know,
>>> none of the voters in this thread actually develop Oozie.
>>>
>>> The IPMC vote is a check on the podling's compliance with licensing
>>> and other foundation-level practices. It's far, far less significant
>>> than the community's appraisal of the release itself. Would the PPMC
>>> please weigh in? -C
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> > As 72 hours has passed, I would like to close the vote.
>>> > The proposed RC-2 got three +1s from three mentors without -1 or 0.
>>> >
>>> > Special thanks to mentors who gave their valuable feedback to make it
>>> better.
>>> > I also want to mention Alejandro and Virag who helped to make the whole
>>> process smoother.
>>> > Now I will ask for vote in general@incubator
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Moahmmad
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ________________________________
>>> > From: Devaraj Das <[email protected]>
>>> > To: [email protected]
>>> > Cc: Oozie-users <[email protected]>
>>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:42 PM
>>> > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Oozie 3.1.3 (candidate 2)
>>> >
>>> > I ran the tests and also inspected the top level txt files. Looks good.
>>> >
>>> > +1 for the release.
>>> >
>>> > On Feb 13, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Mohammad Islam wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks everyone for giving valuable comments for the RC0 and RC1.
>>> >>
>>> >> I created a new candidate (RC2) build for Oozie-3.1.3 incorporating
>>> most of the comments (including Chris's finding).
>>> >> The following JIRAs were resolved based on the comments:
>>> >>
>>> >> OOZIE-694 Update the Install and Quick start guide with appropriate
>>> hadoop versions for branch-3.1 (Mohammad)
>>> >> OOZIE-602 Update the Hadoop version to be an Apache Hadoop version
>>> (tucu)
>>> >> OOZIE-689 XTestCase proxyuser settings fails with Hadoop 1.0.0/0.23.1
>>> (tucu)
>>> >> OOZIE-601 Oozie's POMs should use org.apache.oozie as group (tucu)
>>> >> OOZIE-685 Update License file with 3rd party license information.
>>> (Mohammad)
>>> >> OOZIE-682 Update version 3.1.3 to 3.1.3-incubating in all
>>> pom.xml.(Mohammad)
>>> >> OOZIE-683 Add DISCLAIMER file in the root.(Mohammad)
>>> >> OOZIE-681 Update readme.txt contents.(Mohammad)
>>> >> OOZIE-680 oozie's assembly creates an extra level of empty subdirectory
>>> for docs. (rvs via tucu)
>>> >> OOZIE-608 testCoordChangeEndTime and testCoordChangeXCommand are
>>> failing(Mohamed).
>>> >> OOZIE-678 Update NOTICE.txt to reflect the workcount binaries into
>>> oozie src(Mohammad)
>>> >>
>>> >> Keys used to sign the release are available at
>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/oozie/trunk/KEYS?view=markup.
>>> >>
>>> >> Please download, test, and try it out from here:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://people.apache.org/~kamrul/oozie-3.1.3-incubating-candidate-2/
>>> >>
>>> >> The release log, md5 signature, gpg signature, and rat report all can
>>> be found at the above link.
>>> >> In case, anyone is interested, the svn tag from the release was created
>>> could be found at :
>>> >>
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/oozie/tags/release-3.1.3-rc2/
>>> >>
>>> >> Should we release this? Vote closes on Feb 15th.
>>> >>
>>> >> Regards,
>>> >> Mohammad
>>>

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