Hi, all; Please find the proposed 2.5.0-alpha release tarballs and signatures at the following location. This release candidate was tagged from trunk as of r1814469:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/httpd/ I'd like to call a vote to release this alpha candidate. Please do note - this is my first attempt at cutting a release and mistakes are likely. Therefore, I'll let the vote run at least 10 days (possibly more as I will be traveling to Dublin next week) and will greatly appreciate any additional scrutiny the release tarball can be given. Some notes to share after having executed the process for the first time: * I'm not 100% sure on the proper syntax for an alpha candidate with the release.sh[1] script. I used "./release.sh --tag 2.5.0-alpha alpha httpd-2.5 2.5.0 'drugg...@primary.net". This seems to have produced desired results. * I created two scripts[2] to automate the tagging of SVN and minor file modifications associated with a release as well as the push of the tarballs/signatures to the repo mirror. Unfortunately, I lack the karma to commit to site/trunk. How do I obtain this karma? * I'd like to make some updates to the documentation[3] about how to produce releases to point out the existence of the new scripts and make the process more clear. Same note about karma to site/ applies. * The documentation mentioned to AP_SERVER_DEVBUILD_BOOLEAN to 0 for the tagged release. I assume this still holds true for an alpha release. * Blockers for automation really only seem to live around credential management (svn password and keyring passphrase) and the conducting of the vote itself over email. Kudos to everyone involved for putting together the scripting that already exists! * I'd like to create yet another script that does a pre-flight check for a machine to ensure that the host it is run on has the dependencies all of the above scripts need. Thing is, other than java for the docs build and gpg... I'm not sure what those other things may be (or even if there are any). Pointers welcome. [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/site/trunk/tools/release.sh [2] http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/scripts/ [3] http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html P.S. I'll be in Dublin next week if anyone would like to catch up! -- Daniel Ruggeri
