Hi. I have had a look at your release and it looks good, I could not find any formal errors.
But I took a closer look at the release vote thread, because a failing unit test is a serious bad quality signal for me. Whenever I test new software, I download it, build it, then run all test cases to secure I got it build correctly, where I assume I have made something wrong if a test case fails. Apache is known for quality software and I think we all want to keep that image. I am sure the project does not take quality lightly, but the attitude "can be fixed later" especially with unit tests is to me not a good policy. If the software only runs with 1.7 and not higher, then why not make a simple startup version check, then there would be no problem (of course its even better to solve the problem). I just wonder how this error will affect people using the project. It seems (from the vote thread) you already have solved the problem, but dont want to wait for a respin, can you please at least explain why the project is under such a time constraint, that 72 hours is too long to wait to make good quality. I wanted to give the release a -1 but decided to give -0 binding. in the hope the PMC will go for quality and voluntary respin the release. rgds jan i On 7 October 2014 07:09, Steven Phillips <sphill...@maprtech.com> wrote: > In case there is any confusion, the first email sent out in this thread had > the wrong vote count. The second one has the correct count: > > +9 binding > +3 non-binding > > I should also mention there was one -0 (binding). This was due to unit test > failures when using java 1.8. Jiras were filed, and the fix will be > included in the next release, not this one. > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Steven Phillips <s...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I would like to present the Apache Drill 0.6.0-incubating release to > > the general incubator list for a vote. This set of artifacts have passed > > our drill-dev vote and incorporate a number of improvements with over 30 > > JIRAs closed in the last month. > > > > The vote thread can be found here: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/201410.mbox/%3CCAA_-67fAJFB20wGX462wm7BYvoSy3PvydCPgY9uNSEj3HpQRmg%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > The vote passed with: > > +9 binding > > +3 non-binding > > > > You can find the artifacts for the release at this location: > http://people.apache.org/~smp/apache-drill-0.6.0.rc0/ > > > > I look forward to your feedback. > > > > Thanks, > > Steven > > > > > > > -- > Steven Phillips > Software Engineer > > mapr.com >
