I've downloaded and installed the *.zip archive under WinXP and
Java1.4.2 without any issues.
I like the idea of adding the small README document as suggested by
David Welton (I think we could add it into the svn repository as well).
I like the idea of starting the vote today: David, I think that you
could post a message to officially start it (my guess is that this will
induce others to test the RC1).
I really look forward at seeing the actual graduation for Apache
started: in the last few months we did all a lot of work in order to
accomplish all the tasks requested by the Apache Incubator process and I
really think that now it's time to finalize our efforts.
Jacopo
David E Jones wrote:
I think the last thing we need to do before getting the actual
graduation started is the test release (test snapshot).
Christian Geisert reported some problems with the downloads from the
docs.ofbiz.org site. Has anyone else tried these? To help get around
possible problems with these (and traffic and memory limits on that
server...) I have also put these on people.apache.org. See below this
email for links there.
Anyway, to the real point... When will we be ready to vote on this test
release as a community? After a successful vote amongst ourselves (with
ppmc members having the binding votes), as I understand it the next step
after this is to submit it to the Incubator PMC for review and voting,
and then... I guess we ask for a graduation vote...
It would be nice if as many people as possible could test these files
out, focusing on making sure that it works for you (ie you can unarchive
and run it), and that the MD5 checksum checks out, and that the signing
with my PGP key also checks out, oh and that all of the legal notices
and such are in place. If you want to help out you don't have to do all
of these things, just do what you can (and want to).
Thanks in advance for everyone's help getting to this point. Now we just
have a little bit more to go... Unless this isn't possible for a few key
people, or problems are found with this test release, it would be great
to get the community test release vote finished this week.
-David
http://people.apache.org/~jonesde/apache-ofbiz-incubating-4.0.0.RC1.zip
http://people.apache.org/~jonesde/apache-ofbiz-incubating-4.0.0.RC1.zip.asc
http://people.apache.org/~jonesde/apache-ofbiz-incubating-4.0.0.RC1.zip.md5
http://people.apache.org/~jonesde/apache-ofbiz-incubating-4.0.0.RC1.tgz
http://people.apache.org/~jonesde/apache-ofbiz-incubating-4.0.0.RC1.tgz.asc
http://people.apache.org/~jonesde/apache-ofbiz-incubating-4.0.0.RC1.tgz.md5
