Ok, so we've addressed most of the issues raised in the note below and believe we are ready to move forward with 0.1.0. The new zips are available at http://people.apache.org/~jmsnell
At your convenience, we'd appreciate it if y'all could review and weigh in on the release. Thanks! robert burrell donkin wrote: > [snip] > there's a lot of documentation that hasn't been written up yet do i'll > certainly do that :-) > Additional documentation will be coming. Right now there are docs that demonstrate the basic usage of the API which covers the primary goal for 0.1.0 >> but from what I understand, the next step is >> to ask y'all to review and approve the release candidate. > > i note that you haven't included sample MD5 sums and signatures. > that's fine if you're confident. > md5 sums have been provided. > a few notes on best practice for future reference: > * the binary and source distributions should unpack to directories > with different names. this makes things more convenient for people who > download both source and binary versions. also makes it more obvious > when the source is downloaded. conventionally the source would unpack > to abdera-x.y.z-incubator-src. Done > * list supported build tool versions (ant and maven) in the build > README (doesn't work with installation of maven 1.0.2) Done > * the MANIFEST files should comply with the various java standards on > this matter. these are really a long way away so i can't list just a > few corrections. creating complient releases should be included in the > release management guide very soon but for now see > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/prepare.html#checkjarmanifest > Hopefully they're better now. > important notes > * there are no license or notice files in the jars distributed in the > binary. though this is not necessarily a blocking issue, these > artifacts cannot be distributed as raw jars without them. therefore > these jars cannot be distributed through maven. if you want to do > this, you must include LICENSE and NOTICE files in the jars. > Fixed. > blocking issues > * copyright headers missing from too many source files (pom.xmls, > build.xmls, numerous xml and xslt files, docs/*.html). not all of > these files will be substantial enough for copyright to exist in them > but IMHO there are so many that this should be addressed before > releasing. > Fixed. - James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
