On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Ramkumar R <ramkumar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ant, > > May be I am not sure how to verify this plugin, can you please post some > info on this. Thanks. >
Its mainly down to the ASF standards and requirements for release artifacts, so: - Is every seperatley distributable artifact correctly licensed, do they have the correct LICENSE and NOTICE files? These do if you look within the jars at http://people.apache.org/~antelder/tuscany/maven-zip-plugin-alpha1-RC1/org/apache/tuscany/maven/plugins/maven-zip-plugin/alpha1/ you can see the LICENSE and NOTICE files. - are the artifacts signed with a valid key? These are, you can see the .asc files and if you down load those artifacts and run something like gpg --verify maven-zip-plugin-alpha1.jar.asc it should be ok Those are the main blocking things for these simple maven plugin releases, if either of those were incorrect a -1 would be warranted. Then there's stylistic things, is there a correct svn tag, and in there a RELEASE_NOTES and README file to give some info about what the release is for, are they full of typos, if you were so inclined you could try out using the plugin. None of those things are absolutely required though especially not for an alpha1 release like this and even if you found issues you could just point them out for fixing in a later release. ...ant
