Can you clarify what you're suggesting?  It sounds as if you want to
re-create a new release candidate with some adjustments made, which is
totally fine, but it contradicts your +1 vote, as you're voting on
this release candidate.  Thus, I'm confused.

>>> - Reviewed decompressed artifact contents:
>>>  - Should we be including the .graffle files (in project/design/) in the 
>>> source
>>>    distribution? I'd say no, since they are documentation, and we don't 
>>> have any
>>>    way to attach copyright info to them.
>>
>>In general, we should include the entire SVN contents in the source
>>tree, so I'd say yes we should include them.  We don't have any way to
>>attach copyright info to JPGs, yet we (and other projects) include
>>them.
>
> But we don't include any other documentation in our source distribution. I'd 
> expect it to be omitted since it is not source and not required to compile or 
> run the source. If we want to mirror SVN as closely as possible, I'd suggest 
> that we remove it from the tag or remove it from SVN altogether.

The release should mirror SVN as closely as possible, if for no other
reason than the fact that we need an easily reproducible,
maintainable, and documentable release procedure.  It's also in
keeping with Apache's recommendations AFAIK.  My personal preference
is to include them, since if we had a graphic designer start
submitting mock-ups to SVN, I'd want to include those in our source
distribution as well.  But if we think that for some reason they
should be excluded, then we should remove them from SVN.  What's the
strong reason for excluding them though?  It's not licensing, since we
created them.  And as for it being documentation, so are the Javadoc
comments in our source code and the palette images that go along with
the Javadoc (and users can generate Javadocs from the source
distribution).

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