I was under the (maybe incorrect) impression that these releases are not focused on the code per se, but rather on getting the release process right: solve copyright and licensing issues, correct packaging of third party libraries, and similar issues. If that assumption is correct, at the moment I can not be of much help; Ali and veteran Apache members know heaps more than I do, so I wouldn't be able to provide a *meaningful* vote without first carefully studying the Apache requisites.
However, if code is (very) relevant, I may have time to test it later this weekend. (holidays, real life issues, and three hard disks failing in almost-consecutive days, have been stopping me from testing the RC). For the record, I've tested Ali's federation patches in the past, since most of them had been in his github repo for weeks already: they do improve the stability, and is a very nice and welcome improvement over the previous status of wiab federation. Only for that, I'd provide a +1 vote. Though as I mentioned, I have not really tested those patches in the exact form as they are included in the latest RC4. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Am 12.09.13 20:35, schrieb Ali Lown: > > It seems nobody else is able to give feedback at this point. > > Christian raised some things that are worth doing, so I may as well > > start again with RC5, which I will push up in a few weeks time. [It is > > a bit too busy for me ATM.] > > > > Hopefully, by being a bit later, people won't be on holiday, so will > > be able to review it. :P > I would say save the time for now. > > It has been 2 weeks time for voting. This project has seen messages. > It's september, not mid of august. > We got 1 (!) community vote. Vincente mentioned he is away (thats fine) > and John is not so much into gory technical details (accepted so far). > > But where were the others? Is it really holidays which prevents the > vote? Do we ALL have holidays at the same time? > > Before we move on with a new RC, i would like to know from the people > listed here: > http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#wave > why they didn't vote.** > > Was it really holidays? No interest? No time? > > It has been *a lot* of work for Ali to deal with the ASF release > procedures and kick out multiple RCs. It would be worth to know if he > should continue and if there will be any voters in the future. If there > is nobody who is willing to open a zip file, look into it and send out a > +1, then its really alarming. It took me 30 minutes or so to check the > release. This is not so much. > > I have hoped the excitement in the project after John and a few others > appeared was so big that we would have managed to get a new release out > for review. If others, maybe Incubator Shepherds* look at this project > now, they would think: no community. > > Please let me - us - know what you who are on the list above prevented > to vote**. > > Cheers*** > Christian > > * Incubator Shepherds are Incubator PMC people, who look independently > from the mentor on the activity of the project and provide a second > insight for the report > ** Of course I don't want you to speak out anything which should be kept > private - remember this is a public list. I just want to know: is there > a realistic chance that we ever get more than 3 votes? 3 are required to > get it out, but given the huge list of committers we should get more votes. > *** I am not a native speaker - and I hope my email doesn't sound to > angry. I am not. I would be dissappointed if it finally turns out that > we have lost the energy and steam of the past days > > > > > > Ali > > > -- Regards/Saludos, Bruno Gonzalez http://www.stenyak.com | stenyak @ irc://irc.freenode.net
