We should probably follow the best practices listed in the following guide:
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html >From my experience we will need to go through a few RCs in order to fix all the licensing issues. -- Andrei On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > (I wanted to get this on the wiki but I don't yet have wiki write access, so > here's an email!) > > What exactly do we need to do in order to push out a first release, based on > the current code? Here's what I know of, but I'm fairly sure there's more > that I'm not as clear on: > > - Get the license headers in place for every pertinent file - > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-2 is for this, and assigned to > me. I'll get this dealt with in the next couple days. > - Define exactly what it is we're releasing for the first release - what > platforms do we support? > - Some general code cleanup - e.g., > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-3 for removing .gitignore > files. > - ...I honestly don't know what else we need to do. =) > > This is my first Apache project/release, so I don't know what other checkbox > issues need to be dealt with besides the license headers. > Suggestions/pointers/etc would be helpful. > > Once I've got wiki write access, I'll put this up on the wiki and let > everyone know where it is, so that we can update it communally. > > A. >
