George, Its great to see Lucene.Net coming along in Apache. It's a tool that I have used for quite some time, in various forms. There are quite a few procedural things to get right when releasing software under the ASF. I know it can feel quite daunting to tick all the boxes (I have had to go through it myself). But in the long run it is best to get it all sorted out at the start. My comments are:
As per: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases The release artefacts must contain the "incubating" in the filename. i.e. rather than Lucene.Net-2.0-003-26Feb07.bin.zip how about: incubating-Apache-Lucene.Net-2.0-003-26Feb07.bin.zip You cannot call the LICENSE and NOTICE files LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt (I know that it makes sense under Windows). The LICENSE refers explicitly to a NOTICE file not a NOTICE.txt. Just rename them to LICENSE and NOTICE as used in the rest of the ASF projects. Your NOTICE file should contain an Apache copyright statement. You should only have 1 LICENSE and NOTICE file in the release artefact, at the moment you have 7 of each. In Lucene.Net-2.0-003-26Feb07.bin\src\Lucene.Net there are 2 html files that look like they relate to the java version of Lucene. Should they be in the release? The binary release does not contain any documentation or API reference is this correct? Are you intending to distribute the xml API reference (Lucene.Net.xml) used by Visual Studio to build inline documentation? Are you going to use NDoc to build an HTML API reference? Your debug and release assemblies do not have any apache branding in them at all, neither do they have embedded apache licenses etc. You should add the LICENSE and NOTICE files as embedded resources to all of your assemblies. This is equivalent to adding these files into the Manifest folder of a JAR. It is also important to set the file version to differentiate between hotfix versions. Something like this should do: [assembly: AssemblyVersion("X.X.X.X")] [assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute("X.X")] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("X.X.X.X")] [assembly: AssemblyCompany("The Apache Software Foundation")] [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright XXXX The Apache Software Foundation.")] [assembly: AssemblyTrademark("Copyright XXXX The Apache Software Foundation.")] [assembly: AssemblyTitle("Apache Lucene.Net")] [assembly: AssemblyDescription("The Apache Software Foundation Lucene.Net text search library")] [assembly: AssemblyProduct("Lucene.Net")] [assembly: AssemblyDefaultAlias("Lucene.Net")] [assembly: AssemblyCulture("")] #if DEBUG [assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("Debug")] #else [assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("Retail")] #endif Neither your debug or release assemblies have a strong name. This is probably not a bad route to take at this point. Your binary distribution is built against Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (1.0.5000.0). I don't think this is clearly documented. Is there any reason why you have chosen to build against 1.1 rather than 1.0? That's all that I can think of. Cheers, Nicko ------------ Nicko Cadell log4net development http://logging.apache.org/log4net > -----Original Message----- > From: George Aroush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2007 00:30 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [VOTE] Approve the release of Apache Lucene.Net 2.0 > build 003 incubating > > Hi folks, > > Lucene.Net community has voted to release Lucene.Net 2.0 > build 003 incubating. I am emailing you to request your vote > for this release. > > (For those who are not familiar with Lucene.Net, please visit > http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/ to learn more.) > > Below are the release details. > > Release history: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene.net/trunk/C% > 23/src/HISTORY > .txt > > Release artifact (source & binary): > http://people.apache.org/~aroush/Lucene.Net-2.0-003/ > > Release vote history on Lucene.Net mailing list: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lucene-net- > dev/200702.mbo > x/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lucene-net- > user/200702.mb > ox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm asking for your vote to approve this release. > > [ ] +1 Approve the release as Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 build > 003 incubating [ ] -1 Veto this release (explain why so it > can be addressed) > > Regards, > > -- George Aroush > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
