I'm cancelling this vote.

I will create an RC3 later today.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 13:17, Chesnay Schepler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This means with the projects I mentioned earlier, when a vote passes for a
> final RC the
> release manager renames the source package and they also rebuild the
> convenience package
> without asking for an additional vote.
>
> Since you mentioned the Flink project earlier:
>
> We neither rename any file we voted on nor rebuild anything after the vote 
> has passed.
> We copy the source release files as-is from one directory (that has an rc 
> suffix) to another directory without a suffix.
> We do the same for our convenience binaries.
> Jars from the staging area are released as-is, without a suffix.
>
> In fact we don't encode the RC suffix into any artifact at any point.
>
> On 2023/06/29 10:22:24 Matthew Benedict de Detrich wrote:
> > > Not sure, if that's really a compromise, as the changed binary
> > artifacts can have different semantics with the changed versions
> > numbers. So, while we could avoid reevaluating the source release
> > which should (enforced to) be identical between RC and final release,
> > the binaries need to be reevaluated rather more strictly than in other
> > projects that 1) don't change semantics with version numbers and 2)
> > don't need to be rebuilt for the final release.
> >
> > Yes I am aware of this (it's the same reason why I said earlier that you
> > cannot just rename the binary i.e. convenience packages).
> >
> > The main justification for this compromise is that while its true that
> > the binary artifacts change when versions change, if you assume
> > good faith from the release manager when they create the final release
> > package they should only be changing the version and nothing else as stated
> > in this
> > step
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko-site/wiki/Pekko-Release-Process#deploy-the-jars-to-apache-maven-repository-staging
> > .
> > For this reason it was deemed that creating another entire voting round was
> > considered
> > excessive because the source package would be exactly the same (if the
> > final vote for an RC
> > is accepted then no extra changes should land) hence why the sunset period
> > of 3
> > business days was added.
> >
> > In other words people can check the final release binary artifacts in the
> > staging
> > repository and if they see an issue then they can mention it and we can
> > drop the
> > artifact and rebuild. This is also mirroring what other upstream projects
> > like
> > Kafka or Flink do (I verified this by both checking/being part of the
> > release process
> > and also asking PMC's)
> >
> > > I‘m not aware of any project that makes changes to what was voted on
> > after the vote, as IMO, that would make the vote mostly meaningless. Which
> > projects are doing this? Some projects might rebuild binary releases from
> > the voted-on source release, but even that is quite unusual. Most projects
> > either publish the binaries separately as a convenience or vote on the
> > source and binary releases simultaneously.
> >
> > > I would be wary of copying what other TLPs do, as you may not know the
> > history or reasoning behind why they do it. Most ASF “rules” are
> > guidelines, and if there is a good reason for a project to do something
> > another way, it may be able to be done that way, but you would need to
> > discuss that with the IPMC first.
> >
> > > Source releases are published using a svn mv command from the voted-on
> > released artefacts, so you can’t change them other than what is are named.
> > Changing them would mean the votes on signatures and hashes are invalid.
> > Some projects use the same artefact name and just put them in directories
> > called RC1, RC2 etc
> >
> > Just to clarify, I was talking about binary i.e. convenience packages, not
> > source packages.
> > Renaming a source package with Pekko is not an issue because the version is
> > not
> > hardcoded inside of the source package, it's dynamically set when you
> > build/compile the source.
> > This means with the projects I mentioned earlier, when a vote passes for a
> > final RC the
> > release manager renames the source package and they also rebuild the
> > convenience package
> > without asking for an additional vote. As you pointed out the source
> > package does not need an
> > extra vote as long as you just rename it without modifying the contents.
> >
> > > In that case you should use the real version number and just rename the
> > artefacts -RC1, -RC2 etc as needed when voting on them.
> >
> > As stated earlier for source packages this isn't an issue, in fact
> > it's already been solved (as stated earlier), it's with binary builds that
> > it's a problem.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:25 AM Johannes Rudolph <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:24 AM Matthew Benedict de Detrich
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > This is why we came up with the "Leave the 1.0.0 artifacts up for 3
> > > > business days so that the community can verify that they match the 
> > > > latest
> > > > successfully voted RC artifact" rule in
> > > >
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko-site/wiki/Pekko-Release-Process#build-the-release
> > > > as a compromise between how other major TLP projects work and not 
> > > > needing
> > > > what is seen as an unnuccessary vote.
> > >
> > > Not sure, if that's really a compromise, as the changed binary
> > > artifacts can have different semantics with the changed versions
> > > numbers. So, while we could avoid reevaluating the source release
> > > which should (enforced to) be identical between RC and final release,
> > > the binaries need to be reevaluated rather more strictly than in other
> > > projects that 1) don't change semantics with version numbers and 2)
> > > don't need to be rebuilt for the final release.
> > >
> > > In particular, there's logic in pekko modules to restrict which module
> > > versions are allowed to be combined at runtime. Currently, the rule is
> > > a simple equality check that validates that all pekko core modules are
> > > at the same version at runtime, so the risk is currently low to get it
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > > The other risk regarding binaries is the general risk that the
> > > required manual release process can go differently (wrong) between RC
> > > and final release.
> > >
> > > Not sure if we can or should skip the vote, but we should definitely
> > > not skip the evaluation of the final binaries.
> > >
> > > Johannes
> > >
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