The vote to release passes with +1s from:
Vadim Gritsenko
Henning Schmiedehausen
Daniel F. Savarese
sebb
Henri Yandell wrote:
There are (to my knowledge) three types of vote/release styles that
have been happening at the ASF.
1) A vote to do a release, with no sign of release files. This is how
this thread started and it's against ASF policy.
Can you put a finger on this policy? I'm not sure I'm aware of such policy.
2) A vote on release-candidate files (or -dev in your case), and then
a release that is trusted to be a repeat of the process used. This is
currently a grey area policy-wise, and is where this release moved to
with the ~/vgritsenko/*-dev files.
Indeed.
3) Creating the actual files that are going to be released and voting
on them. There's pressure to go this way, but it's not the policy yet.
> personally I do prefer "Vote-then-Release" myself but
> that seems to be the way it is.
Release-then-Vote has some nice parts, the actual release is really
easy. That's nice if the release process has been painful as it means
I don't have to remember how to do the damn thing. Vote-then-Release
is nice in that you don't end up doing as many vote builds.
Other parts of the ASF seem to do a release where they make a build
and if it passes a vote it goes out, if it doesn't then they up the
bugfix number and do it again (I don't think anyone actually has a
build number, ie: 1.3.5.7). They also have an alpha/beta/GA thing that
the version number doesn't show. Very confusing as a user I think.
Agree.
Mostly at this stage the mandate is that we have to be voting on
release files, not on "Hey, how about a release".
This is the single most valuable vote. Either community has a consensus on
status of code in question - is it ready to be a GA release? - or not. There is
some limited sense on voting on final files - just to make sure RM did not
messed up in the process - but it has no much value over "Hey, how about a
release" vote, and adds to the confusion, as you correctly noted above.
Vadim
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