Thanks Justin for bringing up issues on the candidate. Responses in-line. > > Minor issues: > - Any reason why are these file included in the source release? > apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating/bin-dist-files/LICENSE-GPLv3 > apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating/bin-dist-files/LICENSE-LGPL > Basically anything in > apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating/bin-dist-files/* - you might want to > remove then in future releases. >
Those are files required for binary distribution LICENSE files. Some of the libraries included in binary distribution are dual licensed along with GPL. Sure, We will see if the files can be removed from source distribution while packaging. - The binary release NOTICE file probably has unnecessary content but > that’s not a release blocker. > AFAIK, I have verified all the content wrt licenses and the NOTICE is fine. > - It would be better to have the release signed by apache.org email. > - Any reason the source is a .zip and the binary a .tar.gz? > > We are using default apache-release profile for source release - which is generating zip file.