Hi guys, This is for the ASF-savvy in the crowd. Feedback from mentors would be much appreciated.
We're close to release. Really very close. We're down to one new blocker today, and as far as I can tell all that's left is procedural. The issue is that I'm having trouble navigating the procedure. I've started a ticket to track these things here[1]. The incubator checklist[2] seems to largely involve distributing releases, not the process an incubating project needs to go through in order to release. In addition, the incubator release management guide[3] says (in the Organization section): "This document is descriptive not normative. It describes best practices. Policy is defined elsewhere. Podlings are free to accept or reject any of the recommendations. Enquiries may be expected about novel or unusual practices. Best practice evolves. New ideas may be patched in." But seeing as we haven't had a release before, I think we might need a little hand holding until we know what we're doing. It's unclear to me whether we need a legal audit or not. I was under the impression that a this point all code has been accounted for, and either comes from JIRA or an ICLA/CCLA contributor, but I can't seem to find a ticket or mailing list posting to back that up. There's a reference in the incubator release guide to a "STATUS" document, which needs to be up to date, but the section appears to be largely incomplete: " STATUS document TODO: check this TODO: the STATUS document should be checked to ensure that it is up to date before release. Incubator releases should do a legal audit before releasing. The legal STATUS of the code base should be clean before it is released." Could someone clarify? Are there documents that are completed? [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-439 [2]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-list [3]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.htm -- Kevin Clark http://glu.ttono.us
