On 31/10/2018 Marcus wrote:
To make it an official vote I miss the following information:
- What exactly do we vote for (link to the source and binaries)?
Yes please, let's try to be reasonably serious about releases: due to
legal implications (among other things), there are some formalities that
are required; nothing more than what we did for any other Release
Candidate in history.
I assume we are voting on (this is the only 4.1.6-RC1 available, but it
needs to be recorded in the vote discussion!)
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.6-RC1/
- What is the time for the vote? Please more than just the normal 72
hours so that we all can use a weekend for more testing.
Elsewhere Peter mentioned until Wednesday 7 November but again this
should be in the vote thread (so, here).
And most important: the Release Manager (Peter) must sign the source
files. I've just spent a lot of time trying to make sense of various
ways to have multiple signature in one file, concluding that it is easy
to do that for a binary signature, but it is a hack to do so for the
ASCII-armored signatures we use.
So, in short, Peter as the Release Manager should rectify things by:
1) Confirming that the URL and deadline above are correct
2) Replace, before the vote ends, current signatures with only his
signature as follows:
$ svn checkout
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.6-RC1/source
$ rm *.asc
$ gpg -a -b --digest-algo=SHA512 *.bz2
$ gpg -a -b --digest-algo=SHA512 *.gz
$ gpg -a -b --digest-algo=SHA512 *.zip
$ svn commit
About this second item, I see that Matthias concatenated his signature
to Jim's one: this is possible for the binary format but GPG will
complain if this is done for the ASCII format, and as you can see by
searching the net there is no clean way to do it. I checked back in
version 4.1.2 (that was signed by Juergen and me) and I found out that I
had simply replaced Juergen's signature with mine in that case (I was
the Release Manager for 4.1.2). We can do the same this time.
Regards,
Andrea.
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