Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
--On January 19, 2006 4:29:33 PM -0700 Martin Sebor
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If there is an easy way to rename a branch I suppose we could start
with a 1.2.3-not-an-official-release-yet (or whatever) branch and,
once the release is approved, rename it to 1.2.3.
svn mv tags/1.2.3-not-an-official-release-yet tags/1.2.3
Nifty -- thanks! :)
Again, my take is that a release candidate is not a good idea; instead,
I feel you should just burn the number. But, if you insist on a rc
process, some ASF projects have done that with varying measure of success.
But I feel that this seems like going too far. I have been following
several open source projects for years (e.g., gcc, glibc, GNU make,
STLport) but this is the first time I've ever even heard of this
policy. Do you know of any projects outside the ASF that use it? If
not, I wonder what it is about the ASF that makes us different from
the other open source projects and that requires us to adopt such
an unconventional policy.
The critical point of the ASF's release policy is that there are at
least three PMC members voting +1 and that there are more positive than
negative votes. A RM will create a release individually, but in order
to distribute the release and call it Apache XYZ, it needs the approval
of the PMC (as denoted by their votes). The specifics of how each
project gets to that is up to each PMC.
The concern I had with your earlier comments was altering the source,
assuming all of the prior votes counted, and not having any
identification to know that the source had changed. That's dangerous
behavior because it facilitates confusion over what we're all voting on
and what users will download. -- justin
I see. It was a mistake caused by my inexperience with the ASF
release process. I certainly agree and understand that it needs
to be avoided and why. I will keep it in mind for the next release
(although I hope to do a better job of making sure that the first
tarball is good to begin with! :)
Thanks again for your helpful comments!
Martin
