On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote:
> > The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache > Cassandra 0.4.0-rc1. We would now like to request the approval of the > Incubator PMC for this release. > > +1 from me. Matthieu > Cassandra is a massively scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, > structured key-value store. > > Podling vote thread: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-...@incubator.apache.org/msg00856.html > 0.4.0-rc1 artifacts: > http://people.apache.org/~eevans<http://people.apache.org/%7Eeevans> > SVN tag: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.4.0-rc1 > Project home: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ > Incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cassandra.html > > The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or longer if needed). > > There was quite a bit of discussion surrounding the last IPMC vote, so > here is a list of some of the things that were brought up, and where we > are are on those issues: > > * No zip archives > > We are still not generating zip archives. Hopefully that won't be an > issue. > > * Missing SVN properties > > This was addressed in CASSANDRA-368 (i.e. the properties are now in > place). > > * Licenses in lib/licenses instead of LICENSE.txt > > During the discussion, CASSANDRA-371 was created and a reference has > since been added to the bottom of LICENSE.txt that directs people to > lib/licenses for the third-party dependencies. > > The reason for putting third-party licenses in lib/licenses was to ease > maintenance, which in turn should help guarantee that this information > is up-to-date and accurate. That still seems like a valid reason so if > possible, I'd like to wait for the resolution of LEGAL-31 > > * JUnit jar in binary archive > > I completely lost track of this after the discussion, and didn't notice > it until after 0.4.0-rc1 was tagged and the artifacts created. I've > submitted CASSANDRA-417 so that it won't be forgotten again. > > * Attributions in NOTICE.txt > > During the discussion, I explained the rationale[1] behind our > NOTICE.txt, but I'm not sure that went anywhere. The example cited was > Antlr, but by my understanding of the BSD license, there is no > requirement that the attribution be in a top-level file let alone one > named NOTICE.txt. > > Again, we're trying to keep things simple so that it is easier to > maintain and as a result, more accurate and up-to-date. But, if this is > a sore spot with IPMC voters, we'll put all attributions, required or > not in NOTICE.txt. > > * NOTICE shouldn't have "Developers and Contributors are listed in..." > > This is another one I lost track of after the discussion, (CASSANDRA-415 > submitted). > > > > [1] > http://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg22190.html > > Regards, > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@rackspace.com > >
