On 6/29/14 7:29 AM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>Hi, > >> And then, if your answer is yes, as a release manager, I would request a >> couple of things. > >And in return I also like to request a few things: > >1) The RM shouldn't assume everyone can do this as a full time job What gave you that impression? The fact that I provided utilities to try to save folks time? > reviewing release properly is difficult My point is it shouldn't be and we need to make it less difficult. >2) A slower release candidate cycle would help, IMO you'll get more >reviews, more testing and less release candidates overall. Fewer releases per year doesn't sound helpful to the community. > >3) Try to have one vote open at once rather than four. We need to reduce >dependancies between projects where we can. The whole installer XML >living in the project is becoming an issue here, in particular as it >doesn't fit into the normal Apache source testing process. Forcing serialized voting for our releases also doesn't sound helpful to the community. We need to make this process simpler and faster. We're going to have six releases once we start shipping BlazeDS. >4) Try to get other committers and users involved a bit more (and less >issues with releases). I may of missed it but I didn't see an email to >the user mailing list about these releases, I thought we weren't supposed to advertise development builds on users@ >But seriously someone else needs to take a turn to do it, we need to >spread the knowledge/process about a bit. Agree, but don't' see how serializing and making the process take longer is the way to encourage folks to step up. > >> I also find it interesting that the guidance discouraged >> including copyright, but at least folks can google for it. >In particular a few incubating projects I've seen include copyright in >LICENSE have passed votes. One came up for review today: >https://github.com/apache/incubator-samza/blob/master/LICENSE You should point that out on that thread and see what response you get. I think they've ignored our other thread. -Alex
