Hi, folks. We just tried to do a release of brave-karaf, but I think we realized that many of us have no experience or no recent experience in ASF releases. Some were giving +1s without doing any verification whatsoever, and others possibly asking for more than required to pass the release. First release was going to be bumpy, so no big deal. However, I think there's some more to it.
I think some confusion was caused due to the various incubator mailing list discussions. Some are calling out projects for not doing things right, and some are not clarified on topics about source vs binary etc. The way I perceive these discussions are just that.. discussions. I don't think we have to hold ourselves to standards higher than graduated project (standard of practice). However, I think if this is a valid interpretation, a mentor should step up as sometimes the language in these discussions is distracting (ex blamey phrasing happened in those threads and is strong language for an evolving process especially around github). During our own release, we wandered, possibly into the correct corners, but some topics feel more like guessing what we should do than people knowing they need to. Lacking guidance, personally I looked at a couple projects, jclouds and dubbo, and arbitrarily chose the latter as the docs were polished. https://dubbo.incubator.apache.org/en-us/blog/prepare-an-apache-release.html This doesn't mean they were right, but seems they are right enough. Maybe we can be right enough, too, as re-releasing and meta-discussions are taxing timewise and emotionally. The main thing here is I think we should have not started without a mentor present to help navigate these topics. The short of it is, that as a RM, I'd like to re-start the release vote to clean the slate. I think that involves a "CANCEL" process which I'll look up. However, I'd like a mentor to both be present for questions and also participate in verifying the release and voting. So, if someone can reply with their availability, I'm happy to continue this and learn how to make the next one smooth. Best, -A --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
