> On 12 Nov 2015, at 20:23, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org> wrote: > > We have always voted on release tar-balls, not svn branches / git commit-ids > or tags. > > When we were on SVN, we used to paste in the voting thread the release branch > URL. > > Since we moved to git, we stopped creating release branches and have always > used signed tags for snapshotting and posted tags in the voting threads. > > To my knowledge, we never reuse tags - as they are themselves versioned - for > e.g. hadoop-2.7.1-RC0 etc. So we don’t run the risk of tags getting replaced > from under the rug. > > To me, tags are a simple way of going back to the code we ship in a release > without creating and maintaining explicit release branches. No one can > remember Commit IDs. > > All that said, we can post the commit-IDs in future release votes for the > sake of convenience, but I disagree with the statement that we vote on > git-commits. > > +Vinod >
I recognise that we vote on the src distro, but that source has an origin. And that has to be a commit #, not a tag, as somebody *may* change that tag later. the ASF incubator will only approve of git-based releases with that checksum —so its the one we should all be using FWIW, the RC tag is: 6f38ccc ; I've checked it out and verifying it builds on Windows, including all the native libs
