> I agree with Oliver though that the backward compat isssue requires a > major version bump and ideally deprecation before that. Any way it > can be worked around?
Sure, I can just rename the new field and deprecate the new one. A few more observations. > > 1) I notice that the src distro includes a /lib directory with some > jars that the README says are not needed by the maven build. > Shouldn't these be removed from the distro? Both mvn and ant builds > seem to work without this directory. This is a showstopper if the > license is not compatible. I'll double-check this; if I'm right about the new ant build, they're not necessary anymore. 2) What is the difference between maven-build.xml and build.xml? Both > seem to work. Maybe one should be removed? Could be I am missing > something here. They came from the maven 2 ant file generator. The idea is that user-specific customizations go in the build.xml while the maven-build.xmlis read-only. I thought it was a little silly myself, but it was much easier to regenerate the ant files than try to fix the old autogenerated one. Perhaps a note in the build instructions? 3) The manifest has built-by attribute "ben". I don't know if if is > possible to override the built-by using m2, but it would be good to > make this "bspeakmon. " Good idea. I'm sure there's an option for it somewhere. 4) Opinions vary on this, but at least some of us think that it is > best to build the release binary jars using the lowest supported jdk - > which in this case should be 1.4. Looks like the binary was built > using 1.6. I'm not that concerned about it personally, but it does look better to those who care deeply about it if I use the target JDK. Since I'm doing another build anyway, it's no biggie to switch. Sigs and hashes check fine. We need to make sure to update > http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/KEYS to add your key prior to > release. Do we just copy this from SVN? You should also publish your > key to some keyservers and get it signed. Will do. Henri should have a signed copy of my key as well.
