On 14 August 2015 at 19:35, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 Aug 2015, at 12:23 am, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We could name the release candidates .rcx some projects to do that. But > I > > personally do not like that we vote about foo.r5.zip but upload foo.zip > to > > the release > > server. I want to vote on the exact image that will be uploaded to dist. > > Actually I think having .rcx would be good, because then we can easily > distinguish between the different versions, and when the official [VOTE] > begins it can be “Vote if you agree that foo-0.1.rc5.zip (with signature > 0xABCDEF) should become the official 0.1 release”. Then there’s no > ambiguity as to which actual file we’re voting on. > ?? there is not any doubt, the file we VOTE on (when that time comes) is the one uploaded to dist/dev/incubator... that file cannot change during a VOTE, if it does it is a new VOTE.
Assume we vote on foo-0.1.rc5.zip (with signature 0xABCDEF), then I hope someone secures that foo.0.1.zip is identical. We should also check that the zip is the actual content of the release branch and I cannot see us making foo.rcx branches. rgds jan i. > > — > Dr Peter M. Kelly > [email protected] > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > >
