Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
The RC looks pretty good, just a couple of comments/questions: 1) Theres a failing test - does it matter? http://tinyurl.com/ymh763 2) The dependencies are mis-leading since they include slide and jcifs which are in the vfs sandbox and not part of the release:

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
I just thought about running the RAT tool over the source distro - popped up 65 files missing source file license headers - including 10 java class files - I have fixed the ones that seemed to matter: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revrevision=485638 Since I think the above warrants a new

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/9/06, Mario Ivankovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! After an eventful year and some help from others I managed to cut a new RC. snip/ I see Niall has already made some improvements (thanks). Ofcourse its upto you, but I'd suggest making the (new) RC available for a few days before

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi Rahul! Ofcourse its upto you, but I'd suggest making the (new) RC available for a few days before calling the vote, especially since there has been quite a gap between the last RC and now. Hehe, for sure, I was just too enthusiastic ;-) On the other hand, more often than not things came up

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/11/06, Mario Ivankovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ And I too would like another way how we move forward to a release (at least if my understanding matches with what you mean). Is it like this?: *) create a version tag in svn - the final tag - in this case vfs-1.0 snap/ No, tag

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi Niall! 1) Theres a failing test - does it matter? http://tinyurl.com/ymh763 No, I've documented it in the release notes ... though ... hmmm ... maybe I found a way to make it run too 2) The dependencies are mis-leading since they include slide and jcifs which are in the vfs

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi Rahul! No, tag remains VFS_1_0_RC9. Hmmm ... I don't understand why we still need the RC tags, if something is dangerous, than that we have artifacts with a release version numbering even if its not the real final release. If we need a pre stage in svn, wouldn't it be sufficient to simply tag

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
On 12/11/06, Mario Ivankovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Niall! 1) Theres a failing test - does it matter? http://tinyurl.com/ymh763 No, I've documented it in the release notes ... though ... hmmm ... maybe I found a way to make it run too 2) The dependencies are mis-leading since

Re: [VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-11 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/11/06, Mario Ivankovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rahul! No, tag remains VFS_1_0_RC9. Hmmm ... I don't understand why we still need the RC tags, if something is dangerous, than that we have artifacts with a release version numbering even if its not the real final release. snip/

[VOTE][VFS] release commons-vfs 1.0 based on RC8

2006-12-09 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! After an eventful year and some help from others I managed to cut a new RC. Please find the RC at http://people.apache.org/~imario/vfs The site can be reviewed at http://people.apache.org/~imario/vfs-1.0-RC8/site *) imported commons-compress into vfs codebase to get rid of snapshot