Hi All,

I suggest we make the RC3 with latest from trunk which includes some of the 
improvements/big fixes made after RC2. Any objections? If I do not see any 
objections, I will add the new JIRA's to the release notes and after we address 
rest of missing notice/license, re-tag from trunk itself.

Suresh

On Nov 16, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Suresh Marru wrote:

> Hi Ate,
> 
> Thank you very much for the detailed feedback, will go by them one by one to 
> address them.
> 
> Suresh
> On Nov 16, 2011, at 5:48 AM, Ate Douma wrote:
> 
>> I've shortly reviewed this release candidate and found several issues with 
>> it which regrettably makes me have to vote -1 on this candidate:
>> 
>> - BLOCKER: none of the *.jar artifacts (including derived build 
>> -javadoc.jar, -sources.jar) contain the required incubator DISCLAIMER file
>> 
>> - BLOCKER: the binary distributions LICENSE/NOTICE files are not covering 
>> all bundled external dependencies which have/require separate mentioning, 
>> e.g. like activation-1.1.jar (CDDL license!), jaxen-1.1.1.jar, 
>> logback-*.jar, jibx-*.jar, mex-*.jar, and probably (much) more, I stopped 
>> checking after finding already these.
>> In general any bundled artifact should be checked proper what license/notice 
>> requirements it needs. For some this can be derived from the jar itself but 
>> many don't have any so they need looking up elsewhere. And even for ASF 
>> provided artifacts this is needed as some have *additional* notices (beyond 
>> the default ASF notice) which then also should be covered/copied in the 
>> project NOTICE file. I also see several edu.indiana provided artifacts 
>> (weps-beans, pegasuswebservice, maybe more) of which it isn't clear to me 
>> if/what license requirements they have. I see xpp3 mentioned in the NOTICE 
>> file, but not these?
>> 
>> - In addition I see several cryptix-* and jce-* libraries bundled: I suppose 
>> these contain encryption techology/algorithms. I'm not sure if/how these 
>> should be handled and/or require special notices. Possibly not, but I 
>> suggest asking this specifically on general@incubator or check related 
>> documents just to be sure (this is not my expertise).
>> 
>> - The binary distributions contain a lot license files under 
>> standalone-server/lib which are not needed, at least not from ASF pov (the 
>> root LICENSE/NOTICE files already should cover everything), besides there 
>> are even some for artifacts which aren't even bundled...
>> 
>> - The -source.tar.gz and -source.zip distributions, which are different from 
>> the already automatically maven produced 
>> airavata-0.1-incubating-source-release.zip, have .svn folders embedded. It 
>> wonder why these separate source distributions are made anyway as maven 
>> already produces the only one needed...
>> (note: if only using this -source-release.zip, it is required to copy this 
>> to the official download area on the apache server)
>> 
>> - POSSIBLE BLOCKER: The binary distributions (both .tar.gz and .zip) are 
>> also 'build' through maven *and* deployed to the repository. However these 
>> have different sizes. I haven't actually (binary) compared them but this 
>> seems odd. Furthermore, I would suggest not to deploy these binary 
>> distributions to the repository as they have no usage from a maven (build) 
>> perspective and these distributions in any case are required (at least) to 
>> be downloaded through the main apache server(s), something which maven 
>> central is *not*. Redundantly providing these also through the maven 
>> repository seems unneeded, if not undesired.
>> 
>> - The distribution module also uses packaging type 'jar' (default). For 
>> assembly only poms better use packaging type 'pom', because now even a 
>> 'distribution-0.1-incubating.jar' (and derived -sources.jar) is 
>> produced/deployed, which is useless.
>> To prevent deploying the assembly produced binary artifacts to the remote 
>> repositories just add <attach>false</attach> to the assembly plugin config.
>> 
>> Ate
>> 
>> On 11/11/2011 06:35 PM, Suresh Marru wrote:
>>> Discussion thread for vote on airavata 0.1-incubating release candidate 2.
>>> 
>>> If you have any questions or feedback or to post results of validating the 
>>> release, please reply to this thread.
>>> 
>>> For reference, the Apache release guide  - 
>>> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
>>> Incubator specific release guidelines - 
>>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
>>> 
>>> Some tips to validate the release before you vote:
>>> 
>>> * Download the binary version and run the 5 minute or 10 minute tutorial as 
>>> described in README and website.
>>> * Download the source files from compressed files and release tag and build 
>>> (which includes tests).
>>> * Verify the distributon for the required LICENSE, NOTICE and DISCLAIMER 
>>> files
>>> * Verify if all the staged files are signed and the signature is verifiable.
>>> * Verify if the signing key in the project's KEYS file is hosted on a 
>>> public server
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your time in validating the release and voting,
>>> Suresh
> 

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