Thanks, everyone! The vote has passed with THREE +1 PMC votes, THREE +1 additional votes, and no other votes.
I'll be proceeding with the next steps. Best, Jonny On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM Carl Marcum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > +1 (non-binding) > > I checked on MacOS Sequoia 15.6.1 on M2 Chip: > * sha256 and sha512 checksums > * valid signature > * NOTICE and LICENSE files present. > * ran bootstrap: gradle -p bootstrap > * checked licenses with: gradlew rat > * built from source (and published locally) using: gradlew publishToMavenLocal > Used successfully from local maven in my Geb test project. > > I downloaded the staged jars from geb-core and geb-spock and verified the > source jar META-INF dirs contain LICENSE and NOTICE files. > I also noted that the Nexus validation had passed. > > Best regards, > Carl > > > On 9/9/25 4:16 PM, Jonny wrote: > > Dear development community, > > After much anticipation, I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Geb > 8.0.0 release! > > This release updates a lot of the dependencies and build tooling for the > Geb project. There are also some quality of life improvements from > community contributors, including better support for closures in JavaScript > execution (see PR 275 <https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/pull/275>). The > biggest breaking change is that the group in the maven coordinates for > artifacts will change from org.gebish to org.apache.groovy.geb. The second > biggest breaking change is that Java 11 is the minimum target version for > the compiled artifacts. > > The complete changelog is on GitHub: > https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/compare/v7.0...v8.0.0 > > Tag: v8.0.0 (https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/tree/v8.0.0) > Tag commit id: 75d12d5fe9e52409daf74082bfda351d9f55f76c > > The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r79217): > Source release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/geb/ > > Additionally, there are staged Maven artifacts at > https://repository.apache.org/service/local/repositories/orgapachegroovy-1090/content/org/apache/groovy/geb/ > > Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/groovy/KEYS > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Geb 8.0.0. > > Reminder on ASF release approval requirements for PMC members: > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval > Hints on validating checksums/signatures (but replace md5sum with > sha256sum or sha512sum): > https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html > > Since Geb is a subproject of Groovy, the same Groovy PMC votes that are > required for a Groovy release will be required here. > > The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at > least three +1 PMC votes are cast. > > [ ] +1 Release Apache Geb 8.0.0 > [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok > [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Geb 8.0.0 because... > > Here is my vote: > +1 (non-binding) > >
