I'll try to make time for the karaf/cli releases.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Chip Childers <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:04:08PM -0400, Suresh Marru wrote: > > The comprehensive release document is at - > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html > > > > The key things are to make sure: > > * All source code has proper (ASF) license headers. If no one gets to it > within next week, I will help with this on 23rd. > > * Getting the LICENSE and NOTICE files right - this might help - > http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html > > * Properly signing the releases (with KEYS in right place) and uploading > artifacts to nexus repo and such. > > > > The most time consuming aspect for the first release in ASF is getting > the LICENSE and NOTICE file populated for binary distribution including all > bundled transitive dependencies. > > Suggestion from the peanut gallery: > > I strongly recommend using Apache Whisker [1] to help with this. It's a > bit > rough around the edges, but being able to work work the licensing > metadata in XML files and generate LICENSE and NOTICE files from that > data is useful. It takes a little bit more time than just putting the > legal docs together by hand, but I've found it to be worth the time > spent. > > [1] http://creadur.apache.org/whisker/ > -- *Ioannis Canellos* * ** Blog: http://iocanel.blogspot.com ** Twitter: iocanel *
