Mentors: As you know, we're getting prepared for our 1.1 release. Along those lines, I have read the documentation at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html, http://www.apache.org/dev/#releases, and http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases. I may have missed some stuff (that's a lot to read!), but I had some questions even after reading it all and was hoping I could get some guidance from you.
1) I understand that the release archive must contain the word "apache" in the filename. What about the JAR files contained within the archive? For example, is "pivot-core.jar" ok, or does it have to be "pache-pivot-core.jar"? 2) Same question as above, but with the word "incubating". Is it ok if our jar looks like "[apache-]pivot-wtk.jar", or must it be "[apache-]pivot-wtk_incubating.jar"? 3) We'd like to keep version numbers out of our JAR files, but I see that it's common practice to include version numbers in JAR files. Is there a really compelling reason to include the version numbers? For example, we'd like to use "pivot-core.jar" vs. "pivot-core-1.1.jar". Note that for all three prior questions, we intend to name our release archive "apache-pivot-1.1_incubating.[zip/tar.gz]", and have it contain a README, LICENSE, NOTICE, our distribution JAR files, and a shell script and batch file that enables users to launch a WTKX file easily. 4) Must each JAR file contained in the release archive contain a LICENSE and NOTICE file, even if our release archive itself contains these files? As always, thanks for your help! -T
