All, I wanted to get others opinions. Currently Freemarker creates two artifacts - one is a GAE compatible module, the other is a regular library. They are created from two distinct branches in their SCM. Are those artifacts voted on together or separately?
John On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:57 AM Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu> wrote: > Thursday, December 31, 2015, 3:26:19 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu> > wrote: > >> OK thanks, makes sense, then RC-s at FreeMarker will go through the > >> same process as final releases (except that they don't go to stable > >> Maven Repo-s such as the Central). > >> > >> This, however, means that sometimes we will have two "latest releases" > >> under http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/freemarker/engine/, like > >> 2.3.24-incubating/ and 2.3.25-incubating-rc1/. I hope that's fine. > >> (The release policy says "/www.apache.org/dist should contain the > >> latest release in each branch that is currently under development.", > >> which doesn't strictly stand here.) > > > > Yes, that's fine. That passage in the Release Distribution Policy is > > primarily motivated by the need to keep the volume of material in > mirrored > > distribution under control. Clearly it is appropriate in this case to go > > against the SHOULD. > > > > Earlier I suggested that you would need two VOTEs for this approach. If > the > > content of the "public RC"[1] source archive differs from that of the > "final" > > source archive, that's definitely true. However, if the "final" is only > a > > renaming of the "public RC", I'd like to explore whether or not we can > spare > > you from the second VOTE. > > > > Is it the case that you could transform a "public RC" into a "final" > using > > only `svn mv` (and similar) to rename files within ` > dist.apache.org/release` <http://dist.apache.org/release>? > > The two releases aren't exactly the same because both the source and > the binary contains the version number (which includes "rc01"). Also > in practice there used to be at least some typo fixes anyway. > > > Marvin Humphrey > > > > [1] I'm using "public RC" here to differentiate from an RC which has not > yet > > been approved for public distribtion by an Apache PMC following the > > Release Policy. > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
