On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:49, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 December 2010 02:04, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: >> This is a vote to release Apache Commons VFS 2.0. >> >> Since the last candidate the package name was changed from vfs to vfs2. Many >> of the Jira issues were reviewed and those that required a possibly >> incompatible API change were addressed. Most instances of StringBuffer were >> replaced with StringBuilder. Some synchronization issues were addressed. >> Many javadoc and some checkstyle issues were addressed. The filesystem >> documentation was improved to list file system capabilities. >> >> [ ] +1 release it >> [ ] +0 go ahead I don't care >> [X] -1 no, do not release it because... >> >> Ralph >> >> tag: >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/vfs/tags/commons-vfs2-project-2.0/ >> (revision 1042381). >> >> site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/commons-vfs/index.html > > Does not mention that the new release uses a new package name and > requires source updates to use. > Ditto the Maven changes. > > changes.xml has not been updated with a description of the release. > Also, the date will need to be changed at some point. > > I still think we should have tried to maintain binary compatibility - > which I think would have been possible. > However, assuming that the compatibility break is what the majority > wants, this needs to be made very obvious, and there should be upgrade > notes describing how to perform the change. > > IMO there should be some RELEASE_NOTES in the source and binary archives.
+1 I've come to expect release notes in bin releases. Gary > > The source archive should probably exclude the DOAP. > >> >> The following artifacts have been staged to the Apache Nexus Staging >> repository org.apache.commons-051 (u:rgoers, a:75.82.178.177) >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-051/ >> >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0-sources.jar >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0.pom >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0-javadoc.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0.jar >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0-javadoc.jar >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0.pom.asc >> commons-vfs2-examples-2.0-sources.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-project-2.0-site.xml >> commons-vfs2-project-2.0.pom.asc >> commons-vfs2-project-2.0.pom >> commons-vfs2-project-2.0-site.xml.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0-sources.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0-tests.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0-javadoc.jar >> commons-vfs2-2.0.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0-test-sources.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0-javadoc.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0-test-sources.jar >> commons-vfs2-2.0.pom.asc >> commons-vfs2-2.0.jar >> commons-vfs2-2.0.pom >> commons-vfs2-2.0-sources.jar >> commons-vfs2-2.0-tests.jar >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0.pom.asc >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-javadoc.jar >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-tests.jar >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-sources.jar >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-sources.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-tests.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0.pom >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0.jar >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-test-sources.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-test-sources.jar >> commons-vfs2-sandbox-2.0-javadoc.jar.asc >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-bin.tar.gz.asc >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-src.tar.gz >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-src.zip >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-src.zip.asc >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0.pom.asc >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0.pom >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-bin.zip >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-src.tar.gz.asc >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-bin.tar.gz >> commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-bin.zip.asc > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
