Great thanks for the info! Yes I volunteer as RM ;) I will start reading through the wiki. I'll also file a JIRA for a DataFu wiki so I can create a How To Release page.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <shaposh...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Matthew Hayes > <matthew.terence.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would love to do a release of 1.3.0 as soon as possible. We've already > > got several new features and bug fixes since migrating to the new Apache > > repo. How can we get started on this? > > Great! First things first: somebody has to volunteer as a Release Manager > (RM) > but it looks like you may just have done that ;-) > > The other thing that I typically advise all incubating projects to do > right away > is to start a HowToRelease wiki page capturing your experience for all the > RMs that will come after you. An excellent example of such a page to fork > is: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/How+To+Release > > If anything on the Whirr how-to-release instructions doesn't make sense -- > ask > away or google via site:apache.org > > Thanks, > Roman. >