Reading through all that now...I'm wondering what else beyond the process stuff we need to do in order to get Bigtop to a state where we're comfortable releasing it. That is - how much code cleanup do we need, etc?
A. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at someone else's release process might also provide insights. > Whirr is a pretty good one imo. > https://cwiki.apache.org/WHIRR/how-to-release.html > > Patrick > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > >> > > >
