On (1), it will be audited when the release is made if not earlier.
On (2) & (3) http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html has
a bunch of instructions. I haven't personally made releases. But I bet
someone else from the mentor list should be able to help you on this.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Kevin Minder <[email protected]> wrote:

> So in trying to get ready to do a release I do really need help figuring
> out a few things.  Clearly trying to figure it all out myself is
> inappropriate.
>
> 1. LICENSE and NOTICE - I think I know what to do but how do I know if I'm
> right?  Will someone be auditing this?
> 2. Artifact signatures - No idea how this is typically done for a Java
> project.  Any pointers?
> 3. What else needs to be in place to initiate a release vote?
>
> So basically I'm personally interested in starting the process of
> releasing 0.2.0.  How knows how many RCs it will take.  Do we need to vote
> on starting that?
>
>
> On 3/20/13 6:53 PM, Kevin Minder wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> Lets see, this is all just a symptom of me learning the ropes here and
>> transitioning into the open development mode.  So let me address each point
>> I believed was raised so that I get concrete feedback about how to improve
>> and proceed.
>>
>> 1. Snapshot upload
>>
>> I certainly understand the "second class" citizen concern here and I was
>> concerned about it myself.  At the time I thought my only option was a
>> private email about the upload.  I thought that was worse that discussing
>> it publically.  Ideally I would expect these type of frequent snapshot
>> distributions to be built via CI.  We don't have that setup yet.  I will
>> file a Jira for that but given the information I received in the
>> general@incubator thread this seemed like it could take awhile.  In the
>> meantime I like Alan's suggestion of uploading to apache.org/~kminder.
>>  I'll do that and send another email.
>>
>> 2. Release vote
>>
>> We want to avoid co-development at all costs too but at the same time we
>> still need to make progresss, name and cut "unofficial releases" to
>> evaluate both at Hortonworks and also to court potential community members.
>>  What should we be calling these to stay within the rules?  I specifically
>> left the SNAPSHOT in everything as an attempt.  I expect that there is
>> still significant work that needs to be done to create something that will
>> pass legal for an official Apache release.  I have more work to do to
>> understand exactly what needs to be in the LICENSE and NOTICE files at a
>> minimum.  When that was done I was planning on asking about calling for a
>> vote.
>>
>> 3. v0.1.0 and v0.2.0-rc1
>>
>> We had all of our history from the GitHub repository imported into the
>> Apache Git repo where we have continued working.  Therefore there are
>> existing tags for the v0.1.0 and v0.2.0-rc1 so I thought it made the most
>> sense to continue on.  I do acknowledge in hindsight that this is something
>> that should have been discussed.
>>
>> 3. Co-development
>>
>> There is no active private repository for this.  Everything is being
>> committed to the Apache git repo at this point.  Larry and I in particular
>> need to find the right balance between high bandwidth brain storming (e.g.
>> face:face, IM, phone) and email discussions on dev@knox.
>>
>> 4. Jira
>>
>> Devarj filed INFRA-5922 on March 1st to have Jira setup.  I would much
>> rather be using the Apache Jira so anything that can be done to speed that
>> up would be appreciated.  I'll take the reference to the Hortonworks Jira
>> out of the docs and I guess we will just have to keep track of any issues
>> discovered in email.  I'll come up with some email subject convention (e.g.
>> [BUG])
>>
>> Continued feedback appreciated.
>> Kevin.
>>
>> On 3/20/13 5:49 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Guys,
>>>
>>> RE: #3, after looking at it in more detail, we need to remove references
>>> to internal Hortonworks JIRA's in our Apache documentation. I realize
>>> Hortonworks
>>> people have their own company systems, etc. Those should not be confused
>>> with their Apache (!Hortonworks) counterparts.
>>>
>>> Do we have an Apache Knox JIRA? If not, I would be glad to request one.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/20/13 2:46 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)"
>>> <[email protected]**> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Kevin,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what this email means, but I'm worried by its context.
>>>>
>>>> Are you suggesting that you have released a version of Apache Knox, with
>>>> a version # 0.2.0?
>>>>
>>>> If so, then I have the following statements/questions:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Apache releases are VOTEd on by the Apache Knox PPMC and by the
>>>> Apache
>>>> Incubator PMC
>>>> (whose VOTEs are the binding ones in this process atm). Unless I missed
>>>> it,
>>>> I didn't see a VOTE thread, so I'm not sure how you released Apache
>>>> Knox.
>>>> See: 
>>>> http://incubator.apache.org/**guides/releasemanagement.html<http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html>
>>>> Small note: where is RC1?
>>>>
>>>> 2. It looks like there is development occurring internally at
>>>> Hortonworks
>>>> here.
>>>> Why? Co-developing wastes community resources. All of you guys here that
>>>> are interested
>>>> in the project should be developing here. Of course there are naming
>>>> issues, etc.,
>>>> associated with this, but more importantly there are community issues.
>>>> So
>>>> I request
>>>> clarification on this.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Great job on the documentation!
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to the clarifications.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/20/13 2:35 PM, "Kevin Minder" <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi Everyone,
>>>>> I decided to cut and share v0.2.0 RC2 of the gateway.  I tagged the
>>>>> repo
>>>>> with v0.2.0-rc2.
>>>>>
>>>>> For those in Hortonworks I uploaded a ZIP here
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/a/**hortonworks.com/file/d/**
>>>>> 0BzcmnaxIHtiAZkxhQWZCQ21<https://docs.google.com/a/hortonworks.com/file/d/0BzcmnaxIHtiAZkxhQWZCQ21>
>>>>> y
>>>>> WTA/edit
>>>>>
>>>>> Everyone else should be able to create their own following these
>>>>> instructions.
>>>>> http://knox.incubator.apache.**org/release-process.html<http://knox.incubator.apache.org/release-process.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Apache site is starting to come along.
>>>>> http://knox.incubator.apache.**org/<http://knox.incubator.apache.org/>
>>>>>
>>>>> Of particular interest are the links in the Documentation section of
>>>>> the
>>>>> left Nav bar.
>>>>> http://knox.incubator.apache.**org/getting-started.html<http://knox.incubator.apache.org/getting-started.html>
>>>>> http://knox.incubator.apache.**org/examples.html<http://knox.incubator.apache.org/examples.html>
>>>>> http://knox.incubator.apache.**org/client.html<http://knox.incubator.apache.org/client.html>
>>>>> http://knox.incubator.apache.**org/sandbox.html<http://knox.incubator.apache.org/sandbox.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wrote and reorganized a bunch of documentation over the last few days
>>>>> and I haven't "tested" all of it yet.  So there may need to be some
>>>>> tweaks there and an RC3.  Functionally however the more eyes the better
>>>>> so give it a spin.  We are especially interested in feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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