Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (rc4)

2013-12-15 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi Marvin, These are not actually files compiled from our source code, but third-party dependencies that are not published to Maven. SBT is a Scala-based build tool where you need that JAR to run. Where exactly is the policy on including these kinds of JARs? The reason we went with them is

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (rc4)

2013-12-15 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi Marvin, These are not actually files compiled from our source code, but third-party dependencies that are not published to Maven. SBT is a Scala-based build tool where you need that JAR to run. Where exactly is the policy on including these kinds of JARs? The reason we went with them is

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (rc4)

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
Hi Patrick, In fact, Sonatype will let you publish non o.a.xx dependencies since they are an approved forge as well for Central sync. So you can sign up for an account there, but it's always good to get the buy in of the specific community of the upstream dependency so they are aware. These

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (rc4)

2013-12-15 Thread Patrick Wendell
Hey Chris, Okay we'll focus on that distribution path for the 0.9.0 release. Thanks! On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Chris Mattmann mattm...@apache.org wrote: Hi Patrick, In fact, Sonatype will let you publish non o.a.xx dependencies since they are an approved forge as well for Central

Re: [VOTE] Enable Release Checklist Experiment

2013-12-15 Thread Dave Brondsema
+1 On 12/13/13 3:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: Greetings, As the next step in our ongoing efforts to reform the release voting process, I propose that we run an experiment allowing the PPMC members of select podlings to earn binding votes under limited circumstances by completing a release

Re: Github Permissions for Committers

2013-12-15 Thread Andrew Phillips
jclouds uses Pull Requests to a GitHub mirror of the (primary) ASF repos as a means of collaborating on submissions with contributors [1]. We then apply the resulting patches to the ASF repos directly [2, 3]. If you'd like more information on how this works, please hop on to #jclouds on

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating (rc4)

2013-12-15 Thread Andrew Phillips
You might also want to have a look at how Scala itself deals with the issue of required binaries for the build: https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/master/pull-binary-libs.sh https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/master/tools/binary-repo-lib.sh I'm not necessarily a huge fan of this (builds on