Two weeks ago I started to get frustrated about not making any progress
on a Felix release. The main blocker for me is that I don't really know
anything about the installer package we have set up to do "fancy"
release packages with services, nor do I have enough time to try to
learn about it right now. In the end, I got to thinking that we don't
actually need to have a "fancy" release for our first release and could
instead just work on a simple "zip-file" release that people just
download and unzip.
I worked with Karl Pauls over the last few days to create a simple
archive release that could meet the Apache release requirements. I put
an example of such a zip-file release for Felix 0.8.0 at:
http://people.apache.org/~rickhall/felix-src-0.8.0-incubator-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz
Karl has examined this example release with the RAT tool, so we think we
have most of the issues covered. The purpose of this message is to get
feedback on two issues:
1. Whether or not everyone agrees that we should just go ahead with a
simple zip-file release. (I will call a formal vote on this in a
separate message so we will know one way or the other how to proceed.)
2. Assuming that we do agree on (1), get feedback on the above
example release in case there are any issues that we still need to
address.
If we can get consensus on this approach, then we can vote on the
release itself (assuming that we can fix any issues that may exist),
vote on a release manager to take responsibility for the release, and
then take the release to the incubator PMC.
-> richard
