Thanks Patrick! I appreciate the pointers. I'll get on these items. Let me
know if you think of anything else.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Eric great to see this coming together! I'm -1 on this candidate but
> it looks like you're getting close:
>
> You should add a "how to release" page to the wiki which details the
> process of creating a release. This will help you and fellow release
> managers who follow, it also serves to document the steps you used to
> create the RC. Whirr is a good example:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/WHIRR/how-to-release.html
>
>
> I went through the incubator release checklist, there are a few things
> missing:
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-list
>
> You are not distributing release manager KEYS afaict, typically it's here:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/mrunit/dist/KEYS?revision=1080137&view=markup
> I do see it here though which is great:
> https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/esammer.asc
>
> Also your announce email should include details on your KEYS for easy
> access, see whirr as an example:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/WHIRR/how-to-release.html
> Perhaps just point to here?
> https://people.apache.org/keys/group/mrunit.asc
> Actually look through that page, there are a number of steps that you
> need to add (such as tagging svn for the release candidate).
>
> You should add a "how to contribute" page to the wiki which includes
> build instructions. It's probably also a good idea to have a basic
> blurb in the README.txt or a BUILD.txt detailing how to build the
> source.
>
> Not sure if it's strictly necessary but you should have md5/sha1 files
> for the artifact, it's a common practice.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Should we release (or, more specifically, call a vote on incubator
> general
> > to release) mrunit-0.5.0-incubator-dist-rc1.tar.gz?
> >
> > Fixed bugs:
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MRUNIT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5.0%22+AND+resolution+in+%28Fixed%2C+%22Won%27t+Fix%22%2C+Duplicate%2C+Invalid%2C+Incomplete%2C+%22Cannot+Reproduce%22%2C+Later%2C+%22Not+A+Problem%22%29
> >
> > Artifacts:
> > http://people.apache.org/~esammer/mrunit/
> >
> > I'm a +1.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Eric Sammer
> > twitter: esammer
> > data: www.cloudera.com
> >
>



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