Greets,
In response to Bertrand's proposal at <http://s.apache.org/awz>, I've created
a draft release verification checklist:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ReleaseChecklist
It should be emphasized that completing a checklist like this at release
points is only one aspect of exercising proper IP stewardship over a codebase.
The checklist says nothing about code provenance, and while it may catch
licensing documentation bugs, it does little to guard against the possibility
of actual licensing violations: bogus header swaps, "borrowed" code pasted
into files with different licensing, and so on. We don't generally encounter
such problems at Apache, but we need to stay vigilant.
Design notes:
* Brevity is important for ease of use. We don't want to explain what makes
for a valid LICENSE and NOTICE in a checklist.
* +0 and -0 votes are rare, so they are omitted from the template.
* All checklist items are optional. Of course if you leave everything
unchecked, your indifference is going to be entered into the record.
* The dictate that all checklist items are optional is explicitly included
in the template despite wasting precious space, because otherwise PPMC
confusion will cause needless stress and wasted time.
* Podlings may wish to augment this template with project-specific
modifications, e.g. "Extended tests pass", "RAT report clean".
* The `Apache ID` field is intended to allow whoever enters these checklists
into the record to copy-and-paste verbatim without having to look up
credentials. Hopefully people will actually fill it in regularly.
* There is no field identifying the release candidate because that
information will be carried by email subject, filepath in version control,
etc.
* The checklist text is designed for quick copy/paste into an email. It
must take up as little vertical space as possible so that it is easy to
select with a mouse/trackpad gesture.
* The textual layout is intended to stack cleanly and to look good when
rendered using either fixed-width or variable-width fonts.
Thoughts?
Marvin Humphrey
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