Richard, Thanks for this note on the vote process. I will ask for further votes on the to ensure compliance - even though RC4 was moved to release area. Will send out an email with the new locations. Once an additional vote is registered, I will send out the vote result email.
--Bipin On 2023/08/04 20:05:35 Richard Zowalla wrote: > Hi all, > > > During the last release vote, I noticed the following things that we > should do better next time to adhere to the ASF release guidelines > [1,2,3]: > > - We need at least 3 (binding) votes for a release. A binding vote > originates from PMC members only (although community is encouraged to > also cast non-binding votes and test the binaries). For 2.5.0, we only > had 2 (binding) votes for RC4 and an implicit one (at least I assume > it) by our release manager, which would need to be cast next time, so > we can formally do the release according to the foundation's policies. > > - A successful vote should be followed by a [VOTE] [RESULT] mail to > indicate, that the vote was successful and the release process > continues. > > - If multiple RC's are needed to do a release, we would need to sent a > mail with [VOTE] [CANCELLED] to indicate the failed attempt and start a > new mail thread with the next release candidate. This make the process > more transparent to everyone. > > No blaming, just my observation. I think, that we can do better next > time :) > > Gruß > Richard > > [1] https://infra.apache.org/release-publishing.html > [2] https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html > [3] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html >