On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:51 PM Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> I am not subscribed to that list. > > Can you elaborate on the process of moving release votes to a > different mirror/fork? Our votes, of course, happen on the mailing > list. The tagging happens in the official git repo. We do not have any > oficially-recognized-yet-unofficial mirrors, and the idea that we > would make a github mirror for the sole purpose of tagging commits > that Github would then consider releases of > apache-impala-incubating-mirror-only-for-votes seems byzantine. > > This was done most recently in a BatchEE vote. The vote thread is here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fc112978fe7682a95189f9d14567ddef23bd2fc860bbce89903bf5c9@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E Its a bit of a mixed bag, some people had concerns, others didn't. To me its valid, since its protected the master in case of a bad release needing to get re-rolled (I personally hate the unnecssary -RC# that projects push out) > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:44 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > IMHO, the tags on github are not formal releases. The fact that github > > marks it as a release is just an unfortunate side effect of how github > > works. So its not a violation of ASF release process. May be good to > > start a discussion on legal-discuss. Let me know if you're subscribed, > we > > can talk more there. > > > > Some projects have handled this by moving release votes to a different > > (mirror/fork) of the project. I don't see anything wrong with taking > that > > approach. > > > > John > > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:41 PM Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > >> > Also the 6.1 release has already been tagged and it available for > public > >> download on github [4] before this vote is finished. This is IMO > against > >> Apache release policy [3] please remove. > >> > 3. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what > >> > 4. https://github.com/apache/incubator-joshua/releases > >> > >> This interpretation by Github (that tags are public releases) is > >> happening to Impala without our knowledge or consent. Does this make > >> it against Apache release policy to tag release candidates? > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
