Hi Robbie,

thank you very much for testing and comments.

We will fix the mentioned issues and try to prepare RC2 next week.

Regards,
Tomas

On 2023/08/10 10:17:48 Robbie Gemmell wrote:
> -1
> 
> There are some blocking issues needing resolved, and the version
> itself seems off, both of which I'll elaborate on below. Beyond these
> I verified the assemblies as usual in terms of running the build,
> verifying checksums, licences etc and all seemed well other than the
> issues noted.
> 
> First, the version itself. Considering the JIRAs listed and related
> changes in them from just a quick skim, the 9.0.1 version doesn't
> actually seem appropriate given some of the very significant
> non-bugfix changes that have been made in the ~9 months since 9.0.0,
> various of which have at least some scope for breaking existing things
> people might be doing with 9.0.0. Seems like at minimum a 9.1.0
> release at this point if not more. E.g:
> - Updating from Jetty 9 to Jetty 11, itself significant but even more
> so in that it is also a switch from using javax to jakarta API
> packages.
> - SLF4J switched from 1.x to 2.x, which though API compatible, has an
> incompatible logging impl registration system and so can actually
> 'break' things applications do.
> - Significant 'clean up' that while hopefully
> non-impacting/behavioural, is significant churn and certainly doesnt
> seem suited to what appears named like a bug-fix release.
> - Swapping the tests from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5, though clearly that's
> mainly internal, would still seem unusual like the above.
> 
> Beyond the version seeming off, there are some actual problems with
> the code/build/packages also needing addressed.
> 
> The broker assembly is defaulting to DEBUG (or higher) level output to
> the console unlike previously. It is still only doing INFO to the log
> file. Perhaps related to the SLF4J change, though it would be quite
> odd given a recent Logback is being used, so maybe it's more likely
> the Logback change itself which is the issue. Or maybe just a wayward
> testing config change was committed. Who knows.
> 
> There are some licence related changes around the updates that are also 
> needed.
> 
> Skimming the diff I noticed an unsuitable licenceMerge config addition
> for the licence plugin:
> https://github.com/apache/qpid-broker-j/blob/2f99658e57b0cb3b2cad9c354aaf73f304dee870/pom.xml#L1675
> 
> The 'GPL2 w/ CPE' ID on its own is definitely not a merge candidate
> with the dual-licensed CDDL entries. We are allowed to ship CDDL bits
> which is why those are there, but are not allowed to ship GPL-only
> bits. That config should be removed.
> 
> Since this was added as part of
> https://github.com/apache/qpid-broker-j/commit/2f99658e57b0cb3b2cad9c354aaf73f304dee870
> to update Jetty it also seemed unnecessary anyway, as Jetty is ASLv2
> or EPL 2.0 licenced overall. If there was something tripping up on a
> dual-licensed thing then it may be a candidate for exclusion from the
> check instead (noticing the Logback one in the config above that). But
> definitely not merging 'GPL2 w/ CPE' into the CDDL entries.
> 
> Actually, digging further I notice the same commit added a couple of
> jakarta spec deps (based on the DEPENDENCIES_REFERENCE file [1]
> changes shown) which did reference 'GPL2 w/ CPE' so it may have been
> something around those...though they were also EPL 2.0 licensed, and
> so that would be what we select as we can actually ship that. I see
> those spec deps have since been removed as unnecessary, however the
> incorrect licenceMerge config remains. Also, no entry was added for
> them in the binary assembly LICENCE [2] file which there should have
> been, but clearly thats no longer an issue now as they were later
> removed again.
> 
> Looking at the wider changes from 9.0.0 to now though for the
> DEPENDENCIES_REFERENCE [1] file for the assembly, and indeed the
> actual binary assembly contents themselves, another change to the
> reference that should have flagged a potential change to the LICENCE
> [2] file was the addition of multiple Bouncy Castle deps
> (bcpkix-jdk18on, bcprov-jdk18on, bcutil-jdk18on) [3]. An entry for
> those should have been, but wasnt, added to the binary assembly
> LICENCE file since they are MIT licensed (the noted Bouncy Castle
> Licence https://www.bouncycastle.org/licence.html is just the MIT
> licence, as it mentions and a read confirms).
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/apache/qpid-broker-j/blob/main/apache-qpid-broker-j/src/main/assembly/dependency-verification/DEPENDENCIES_REFERENCE
> [2] 
> https://github.com/apache/qpid-broker-j/blob/main/apache-qpid-broker-j/src/main/assembly/LICENSE
> [3] 
> https://github.com/apache/qpid-broker-j/blob/f3703502e16e75c1df8c1f84e9de1afde6781e5f/apache-qpid-broker-j/src/main/assembly/dependency-verification/DEPENDENCIES_REFERENCE#L53-L60
> 
> Robbie
> 
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 14:26, Tomas Vavricka <vavr...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I built release artifacts for Qpid Broker-J version 9.0.1 RC1.
> > Please, give them a test out and vote accordingly.
> >
> > The source and binary archives can be found at:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/qpid/broker-j/9.0.1-rc1/
> >
> > The maven artifacts are also staged at:
> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheqpid-1265/
> >
> > The new version brings a number of improvements and bug fixes.
> > You can find the full list of JIRAs included in the release here:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310520&version=12352584
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tomas
> >
> > P.S. For testing of maven broker staging repo artefacts, please add
> > into to your project pom the staging repo as below:
> >
> > <repositories>
> >     <repository>
> >       <id>staging</id>
> >       
> > <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheqpid-1265/</url>
> >     </repository>
> > </repositories>
> >
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