Very well, so we can at least feed the maven repositories.I'd personally still be in favour for a classical binary distribution (if for no other reason than to discuss the format: zip, tar.gz, 7z, ....., but we can do that on the source archive, if anyone desires.), but getetting out the first release is top priority. So, let's go on.
I didn't count. Do we have the 3 binding votes? On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jochen, > > as I tried to say in my first sentence, binary artifacts are available. > However, as we have 3 subprojects that each produce a jar, they are in a > different directory in the repository. > E.g. for vxquery-core they are in > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery-core/0.2-incubating/ > In this directory we have the binary jar (and the source and javadoc jars) > and it contains a LICENSE and NOTICE in the META-INF folder. > > Till > > On Oct 4, 2013, at 3:33 AM, Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Source artifacts are essential. However, I am unaware of *any* project > that > > doesn't provide one or more binary artifacts. And, if you are publishing > > binary artifacts at all, they are also subject to certain standards like > > containing LICENSE and NOTICE files. I wouldn't make any bets that you > > could (after a lot of discussions) can get approval for a binary-only > > release that simply references an SVN tag, or the like, but that's not > your > > question, I assume? > > > > So, it is standard practice, and by far the esaiest (in particular for > the > > users, for which we are targeting finally) way to go, to consider them as > > an important part of the release. > > > > Jochen > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Jochen, > >> > >> Binary, source, and java doc jars for the sub projects are available in > >> the repository. But I think that those are only convenience artifacts > and > >> that we need to vote on the sources. > >> > >> Is that right? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Till > >> > >>> On Oct 1, 2013, at 0:13, Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Is is intentional, to provide a "source only" release? > >>> > >>> (Which is, of course, perfectly fine, just somewhat unusual and perhaps > >> not > >>> what users expect.) > >>> > >>> Regardless of the answer, here's my > >>> > >>> +1 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> +1 > >>>> > >>>> Sigs and checksums work, archive and tag agree, and the rat report is > >>>> consistent as well. > >>>> > >>>>> On Sep 30, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Please verify and vote on the third release candidate for our first > >>>> release apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating. > >>>>> > >>>>> The tag to be voted on is > >>>> > >> > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery/tags/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/ > >>>>> > >>>>> The artifacts, signatures, md5, and sha1 are at: > >>>> > >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-109/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip > >>>> > >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-109/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.asc > >>>> > >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-109/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.md5 > >>>> > >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-109/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.sha1 > >>>>> > >>>>> The RAT report is at: > >>>> > >> > http://people.apache.org/~tillw/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/rat-report.txt > >>>>> > >>>>> and the KEYS file containing the PGP keys used to sign the release > can > >>>> currently be found at > >>>>> > >>>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/vxquery/KEYS > >>>>> > >>>>> The ASF's policy on release can be found here > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#approving-a-release > >>>>> > >>>>> Please vote > >>>>> [ ] +1 release this package as apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating > >>>>> [ ] -1 do not release this package because ... > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> Till > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> "That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make > >> friends > >>> with the bully!" > >>> > >>> Terry Pratchett. The Last Hero > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make > friends > > with the bully!" > > > > Terry Pratchett. The Last Hero > > -- "That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully!" Terry Pratchett. The Last Hero
