Thanks Josh! Do you know what is meant by the part about signing the announcement?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe Witt wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am sorry for the TL/DR nature of this but I'd really like to not >> screw this up and would like to document it well to make it easier for >> others to act as the RM. >> >> For the first release I didn't follow the step of announcing the >> release. That was largely because I didn't understand how to. >> >> So this time I'd like to do it but I do have some questions. >> >> 1) Please confirm we should indeed send release announcements as a >> podling. >> >> 2) Can you explain what it means to have 'Announcments signed'? [1] >> suggests >> "this may mean creating a plain text signature on the machine used to >> sign the release >> and then transferring this". Transferring it to what? >> >> 3) Can you confirm the addressees of the announcement: >> - [email protected] >> - [email protected] >> - [email protected] >> - [REPLY-TO] [email protected] >> >> 4) How does one send an email from an @apache.org address? > > > Check out https://reference.apache.org/committer/email > > I have my local mail client presently set up (SMTP server) to send with my > apache.org. Previously, I think I used GMail's web interface directly. > > Your message below LGTM: > > >> 5) Here is the proposed message for this release: >> SUBJECT: [ANNOUNCE] Apache NiFi 0.0.2-incubating release >> BODY: >> >> Hello >> >> The Apache NiFi team would like to announce the release of Apache NiFi >> 0.0.2-incubating. >> >> Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to >> process and distribute data. Apache NiFi was made for dataflow. It >> supports highly configurable directed graphs of data routing, >> transformation, and system mediation logic. >> >> More details on Apache NiFi can be found here: >> http://nifi.incubator.apache.org/ >> >> The release artifacts can be downloaded from here: >> http://nifi.incubator.apache.org/downloads/ >> >> Maven artifacts have been made available here: >> >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/org/apache/nifi/ >> >> Release notes available here: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316020&version=12329373 >> >> Thank you >> The Apache NiFi team >> >> ---- >> DISCLAIMER >> >> Apache NiFi is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software >> Foundation (ASF), sponsored by Apache Incubator. Incubation is >> required of all newly accepted projects until a further review >> indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making >> process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful >> ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection >> of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that >> the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. >> >> +++++++ >> >> [1] >> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#announcements
