+1. Verified all checksums and GPG signatures. Ran unit tests on source package. Tested each of the binary packages by running Samza's hello-samza test project on it, and verifying that it works.
There is a spurious zero-length file in that directory: kafka_2.8.0-.8.1.tgz.md5 Martin On 8 Mar 2014, at 05:05, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1. Verified quickstart and unit tests. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > >> This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1. >> >> This release candidate fixes the following two JIRA >> KAFKA-1288<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1288>and >> KAFKA-1289 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1289> and updated >> release steps with the gradle changes >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Process for >> build >> and verification post build. >> >> Release Notes (updated) for the 0.8.1 release >> >> https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.1-candidate2/RELEASE_NOTES.html >> >> *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, March 10th, 12pm PT >> >> Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS in addition to the md5, sha1 >> and >> sha2 (SHA256) checksum. >> >> * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): >> https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.1-candidate2/ >> >> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ >> >> * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.1 branch) is the 0.8.1 tag >> >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=62f8aaf74c9d36d1dd49cc7e572a7289206b6414 >> >> /******************************************* >> Joe Stein >> Founder, Principal Consultant >> Big Data Open Source Security LLC >> http://www.stealth.ly >> Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> >> ********************************************/ >>
