Hello Josh,

sebb <seb...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 19. Mai 2016 um 10:55 Uhr:

> On 19 May 2016 at 03:14, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Worked through the remaining steps for this release. dist.a.o (dev and
> > release) were both updated, trunk was bumped to 2.2-SNAPSHOT, nexus repo
> was
> > released, reporter.a.o was updated, and the svn tag was renamed. I did
>
> It's better to copy rather than rename.
>
> > remove the checksums on the signatures before promoting the Nexus
> repository
> > (thanks for pointing that out Bernd and Sebb). Just pushed all of the
> > fixVersion=2.1 issues out as well.
> >
> > Copying from Ralph's 2.0 announcement:
> >
> > <snip>
> > The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
> Commons
> > VFS 2.1
>
> We ought to include a paragraph on what VFS does.
> The Announce will be seen much wider than just the VFS user community.
> Yes, people can check the website, but a brief description would be
> very helpful.
>
> > Details of the changes and bug fixes in this release can be found in
> > the release notes:
> > http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/vfs/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
>
> Likewise it would be useful to provide a short summary of the main
> changes in the release.
> In this case there are so many that it might be hard to summarise, so
> perhaps something like:
>
> "VFS 2.1 is binary compatible with 2.0.
> It includes many new features and bug fixes; please see the release
> notes for details."
>
> The intention of adding this info is to inform potential new users why
> they might want to take a look at VFS, and to inform existing users
> why they might want to upgrade.
>
> Note that at some point RELEASE_NOTES.txt became RELEASE-NOTES.txt
> The former should be deleted from the web site once the announce has
> occured.
>
> > For information on Commons VFS please visit the VFS website:
> > http://commons.apache.org/vfs/
> >
> > Commons VFS can be downloaded from the following page:
> > http://commons.apache.org/vfs/download_vfs.cgi
> >
> > - The Apache Commons community
> > </snip>
> >
> > We'll need to do the following after the artifacts filter out to the
> > mirrors:
> >
> > * Update the website [1]
> > * Send out the ANNOUNCE (text above)
> >
> > Anything else I missed?
>
> Any superseded releases need to be removed from dist/release.
> It should be safe to do this once the announce has been sent, assuming
> the process above has been followed.
>
> Also tidy the RN files (as mentioned above).
>
> S.
> P.S. well done and thanks for getting this far.
>

looks good to me!

Benedikt


>
> > - Josh
> >
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