Hi - We need to tighten up our procedures around releases. There are several issues.
1. Maintaining the official KEYS file - https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/pulsar/KEYS During the pulsar-manager-0.3.0 release the KEYS were not updated from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/pulsar/KEYS This was flagged by ASF Infra and I’ve updated the KEYS file to contain both urfree’s and mattisonchao’s keys. (We should be good for 2.9.3) I suggest that we delete https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/pulsar/KEYS and only use the official https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/pulsar/KEYS in all cases. We will need to rewrite our release docs. 2, We often leave old releases in the distribution directory. I’ve cleaned these up, but we need to make sure that this is documented for everything that is officially released. ./pulsar-client-node/pulsar-client-node-1.6.2 ./pulsar-2.10.1 ./pulsar-2.10.1/connectors ./pulsar-2.10.1/RPMS ./pulsar-2.10.1/RPMS/repodata ./pulsar-2.10.1/DEB ./pulsar-2.9.2 ./pulsar-2.9.2/connectors ./pulsar-2.9.2/RPMS ./pulsar-2.9.2/RPMS/repodata ./pulsar-2.9.2/DEB ./pulsar-adapters-2.8.0 ./pulsar-client-go-0.8.1 ./pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager-0.3.0 ./pulsar-2.8.3 ./pulsar-2.8.3/connectors ./pulsar-2.8.3/RPMS ./pulsar-2.8.3/RPMS/repodata ./pulsar-2.8.3/DEB 3. Pulsar 2.7.4 was removed from the Release distribution on January 20, 2022. Did we announce the EOL of 2.7.x? I don’t recall, but it’s easy to miss activity. 4. If the Apache Pulsar Helm Chart and Apache Pulsar Docker Images are intended to be official convenience releases then they must be included into https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/pulsar/. a) The Helm Chart is not under any ASF process and there needs to be a whole separate discussion about properly handling it. b) What is the deal with the docker images? What is the current process? Why can’t we add them in the release repository where anyone can downstream them to a convenient location. All The Best, Dave
