FYI - I've updated the wiki to reflect my new understanding of releases:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/For+Curator+Committers

-JZ

On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jordan. I'm having trouble finding the release artifact at the link
> provided. afaict what this is linking to is a set of maven files
> making up a curator maven repo. That's fine to include as part of a
> release, however to start with you need a source artifact that's the
> actual release. This should be a single archive file containing the
> source for the project. Maven repos, binaries, etc... are all
> considered "convenience artifacts" and not an official release
> vehicle.
> 
> Take a look at 
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-types
> also: 
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-source
> 
> As I suggested previously you might want to focus on a source only
> release for your first release. That should be straightforward to
> produce. See other projects, here's what whirr did when it was in the
> incubator:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27833322
> I'd suggest you copy/paste this into your wiki and change the names,
> etc... to make sense for curator.
> 
> here's a recent release candidate from S4 that you might take a look
> at to get a sense of what a typical release artifact looks lke:
> http://people.apache.org/~mmorel/s4-0.6.0-incubating-release-candidate-4/
> (doesn't have to be zip files, fine to be tar.gz)
> 
> EOD what you want is:
> 1) a single .tar.gz (whatever) that contains all the source in a buildable 
> form.
> 2) the artifact should be signed and checksummed (typ people include
> .sha1 and .md5)
> 3) generate the artifact from your source repo, tag the source (again,
> see whirr process)
> 4) the source files should pass a RAT check rt license headers and such
> 5) you need license/notice/disclaimer files at the toplevel of the
> release artifact (and your source base) - see the checklist on the
> incubator release page for more such checklist type items:
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-list
> 
> Hope this helps. If not feel free to ask questions.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Jordan Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> This is a vote to release Curator 2.0.0-incubating
>> 
>> Link to release notes:
>> * As this is the first Curator release under Apache there are no release 
>> notes *
>> 
>> Artifacts:
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecurator-145/org/apache/curator/
>> 
>> Vote will be open for 72 hours.
>> 
>> [ ] +1
>> [ ] 0
>> [ ] -1 (explain why)

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