On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 14:30, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 November 2011 12:29, Karl Pauls <karlpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure what this has to do with the graduation vote. The release > > as such has been accepted by the incubator pmc and there only need to > > be one release. The source for each artifact is there, it is just per > > artifact in the -source.jar. > > AFAICT the full source (as in SVN trunk) is not actually present in > the distribution directory. > > For example, where are the top-level files in SVN (BUILDING, README) ? > And the etc/ directory? > > If I wanted to build any or all of the components, there does not > appear to be a way to do this from the files in the distribution. >
The svn tree is not supposed to be a source distribution so looking at it as a buildable thing is not required. > > There might be different set-up then a lot of other projects have it > > but we release our stuff on a per artifact basis how it is done by for > > example Apache Felix as well and never has been an issue (and didn't > > become unmanageably either - also ymmv). > > The ASF primarily releases source; releases must include full source. > I agree on the first part, but not the *full* source. @ace you should look at the felix way which always include a source distribution for each bundle. > > > I agree about the KEYS file. We should have uploaded it to the dist > > dir as well but at least we have it at some place so it should be easy > > to fix. > > > > regards, > > > > Karl > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 17 November 2011 10:42, Marcel Offermans < > marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > >>> In my opinion, ACE is ready to begin the process of graduating from > the Apache Incubator to a Top Level Project. > >>> > >>> Since joining the incubator in in May 2009 we've added 4 new > committers (12 in total now) from diverse organizations and did a release > in May this year to demonstrate we follow the Apache guidelines. We've > shown an ability to self-govern using accepted Apache practices and ACE > continues to attract new contributors and users. > >>> > >>> The first step is to vote as a community, demonstrating that ACE is > ready and willing to graduate. Once this vote is succesful we create a > board resolution proposal or Charter and start a vote on the general > incubator list. The full process is described at > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#toplevel > >>> > >>> The vote is open for at least 72 hours. > >> > >> The last (and only) release was 0.8, as far as I can tell. > >> > >> There is no KEYS file in http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/ace/, > >> and there does not appear to be a full source archive of the project > >> anywhere. > >> The download page does not have a link to any source archives as far > >> as I can tell. > >> It does link to KEYS in SVN, but almost all other ASF projects have a > >> copy of KEYS in the appropriate /dist directory. > >> > >> Normally releases are divided into binaries/ and source/ directories, > >> with a KEYS file in the top-level, i.e. > >> > >> /dist/incubator/ace > >> - KEYS > >> - binaries/ace ....zip > >> - sources/ace....zip > >> > >> Most of the files in the /dist/incubator/ace directory appear to be > >> Maven artifacts; normally these are not stored in /dist but only in > >> the Maven repo. > >> Indeed most of the files are also in Maven Central. The only non-Maven > >> files appear to be > >> > >> org.apache.ace.target.devgateway-0.8.0-incubator-distribution.zip > >> org.apache.ace.target.devserver-0.8.0-incubator-distribution.zip > >> > >> neither of which contains the source. > >> > >> I would expect the above zips to be in > >> > >> /dist/incubator/ace/binaries > >> > >> with corresponding source files in > >> > >> /dist/incubator/ace/source > >> > >> The SVN layout [1] is also a bit unusual. > >> There is no tags/ directory for release tags, although there is a > >> releases/ directory containing individual entries for each release for > >> each component. > >> This is likely to become unmanageable very quickly, if every release > >> adds another 63 directory entries under releases/ > >> > >> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ace/ > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Karl Pauls > > karlpa...@gmail.com > > http://twitter.com/karlpauls > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/karlpauls > > https://profiles.google.com/karlpauls > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
