Hi IPMC, This is a call for vote to release Apache SkyWalking (Incubating) version 5.0.0-alpha.
The Apache SkyWalking community has tested, voted and approved the proposed release of Apache SkyWalking (Incubating) 5.0.0-alpha We now kindly request the Incubator PMC members review and vote on this incubator release. Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems. Also known as a distributed tracing system. It provides an automatic way to instrument applications: no need to change any of the source code of the target application; and an collector with an very high efficiency streaming module. This is the first and alpha release of version 5. Release Notes: https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#500-alpha Release Candidate: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheskywalking-1002/org/apache/skywalking/apm-dist/5.0.0-alpha/ Release Tag: https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/releases/tag/apm-5.0.0-alpha Release CommitId: ae79ed486d96a2d9c9645b84366be7020b4c6446 Keys to Verify the Release Candidate: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2EF5026E70A55777 , corresponding to pen...@apache.org Guide to build the release from source : https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/blob/master/docs/en/How-to-build.md and http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#dev-env Vote in SkyWalking dev mail list: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b7d4ad8b50184b942a7ff7ba947b3b79bd19c008de2c6aa71ee077f@%3Cdev.skywalking.apache.org%3E Test Announcement and result: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff533ca8665962c0855009afdb3fb2172c00c3c7cdcc13e5726a0334@%3Cdev.skywalking.apache.org%3E Voting will start now (Saturday, 17th March, 2018) and will remain open for next 72 hours. [ ] +1 Release this package as 5.0.0-alpha. [ ] +0 No opinion. [ ] -1 Do not release this package because.... ------------------ Sheng Wu Apache SkyWalking original creator and PPMC member