Hi, > When should we do this first Apache release? How do we do this? Who is the > release manager? (hint: not me) Since the breakage is coming on a daily > basis, how/when can we get a stable enough system to even consider a release.
Af far as an Apache release is concerned there is a set of thing that are needed, having the code work is actually not one of them. Although you and your users may care about that. I would suggest you make a checklist for your release along the lines of this one. [1] The first decision to be made would is going to be how to deal with the file headers, and the next the disclaimer and license and notice [5] file. It going to take a lot of work to get this right, the good news is if you use the work in progress disclaimer [2] you can put off some of this work until later releases. I suggest everyone reads the ASF release management [3] and distribution [4] policies. Thanks, Justin 1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/Incubator+Release+Checklist 2. https://incubator.apache.org/policy/incubation.html#work_in_progress_disclaimer 3. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html 4. https://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution.html 5. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html
