Thanks for the clarifications, Lewis. Just to confirm, just like our prev releases we will just publish [1] and [2] to the ASF dist folders? I am planning to verify sig and hash for those files and build/ run the binary from [1].
- Henry On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Henry, > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Lewis, >> >> What is the diff between gora-0.4-source-release.zip and >> gora-0.4-src.tar.gz files? >> > > So just to clarify what Henry is asking here, we have a number of artifacts > within the staging repos which we will be released as Maven artifacts. > Namely gora-0.4-source-release.zip [0], gora-0.4-src.tar.gz [1], > gora-0.4-src.zip [2] and individual module -javadoc.jar, -sources.jar, > src.tar.gz, src.zip, tests.jar, .jar and finally .pom (along with > corresponding signatures for each file.) > > The difference between [0] [1] and [2] is trivial but important to note > none-the-less. > > [0] is an aggregation of the sources for all modules bundled into an > aggregate .zip project. Effectively this is what is a bundle of all sources > included in the .sources.jar Maven artifacts for each module. Such artifacts > allows us to link and assimilate project sources against code in order to > see 3rd party/dependency source within Eclipse or another IDE. This can be > done by linking the sources.jar to the given artifact in the 'project build' > -- > 'sources' tab of Eclipse. To be openly honest with you Henry we most > likely don't need to publish this artifact so maybe we can remove it in > future builds. > Both [1] and [2] are the actual release artifacts which we refer to (along > with their relevant signatures) on our Downloads page. We publish these on > Maven central for convenience. These are the only two artifacts that we > actually host on the Apache Distribution server and mirror to 3rd party > Mirror Servers. > > For other who wish to review the candidate, here is a really helpful link to > incubator guidelines > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-list > > > Thanks, I hope that this has cleared up a bit of the release artifact puzzle > ;) > Lewis > > [0] > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegora-1000/org/apache/gora/gora/0.4/gora-0.4-source-release.zip > [1] > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegora-1000/org/apache/gora/gora/0.4/gora-0.4-src.tar.gz > [2] > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegora-1000/org/apache/gora/gora/0.4/gora-0.4-src.zip
