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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:02:21 -0400
From: Josh Elser <elserj@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Accumulo 1.5.4-rc1
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Michael,

I'd take some time to catch up on some mailing lists like 
general@incubator before passing judgement like that. It's rather hasty.

Michael Ridley wrote:
> -1 (nonbinding)
>
> I agree, license issues are important and it sounds like the ASF policy
> doesn't leave a lot of room for interpretation
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:49 PM, John Vines<vines@apache.org>  wrote:
>
>> -1
>>
>> I'm with Sean on this one. Ignoring now known licensing issues because we
>> hadn't handled them in the past is not a valid excuse.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:27 PM Sean Busbey<busbey@cloudera.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> As members of the PMC, we're required to verify all releases we approve
>> of
>>> meet ASF licensing policy[1], so I don't consider the issues "minor".
>>>
>>> Mistakenly violating policy in the past is a different kind of problem
>> than
>>> moving forward to knowingly violate it.
>>>
>>> In particular, not all of the bundled works have copyrights that are
>>> covered under a donation to the Foundation. If we distribute e.g. the
>>> accumulo-core binary jar in its current state the foundation will be
>>> committing willful copyright infringement. The binary tarball (and I'd
>>> imagine the rpm/deb files) have similar problems because we'd be
>> violating
>>> the terms of the included works' respective licenses.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what-must-every-release-contain
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Billie Rinaldi<
>> billie.rinaldi@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Agreed.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Christopher<ctubbsii@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> I think the license issues are relatively small compared to the
>>> bugfixes,
>>>>> especially since we're really trying to close out 1.5.x development.
>>> So,
>>>>> given the options, I'd prefer to pass RC1, and make the license fixes
>>> in
>>>>> 1.6.x and later, as applicable.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:28 PM Josh Elser<elserj@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks again for taking the time to inspect things so thoroughly,
>>> Sean.
>>>>>> Others who have already voted, I'd ask for your opinion on whether
>> we
>>>>>> should sink this release (instead of me blindly going by majority
>>>> rule).
>>>>>> Personally, I'm presently of the opinion that, given the severity
>> of
>>>> the
>>>>>> bug(s) fixed in this release already, RC1 should pass. Considering
>>> that
>>>>>> we've been making releases like this for quite some time w/o issue
>>> and
>>>>>> 1.5 is all but dead, let's push this release out, (again) table 1.5
>>> and
>>>>>> then make these improvements to 1.6 before we cut an RC there there
>>>> when
>>>>>> we have time to thoroughly vet the changes (instead of the 11th
>> hour
>>> of
>>>>>> a vote).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If there's a need for lengthy discussion, let's break this off the
>>> VOTE
>>>>>> thread (I leave this message here for visibility).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Josh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sean Busbey wrote:
>>>>>>> -1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * signatures check out
>>>>>>> * checksums match
>>>>>>> * licensing errors noted in ACCUMULO-3988
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Josh Elser<elserj@apache.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Accumulo Developers,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please consider the following candidate for Accumulo 1.5.4.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Git Commit:
>>>>>>>>       12a1041dcbb7f3b10543c305f27ece4b0d65ab9c
>>>>>>>> Branch:
>>>>>>>>       1.5.4-rc1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If this vote passes, a gpg-signed tag will be created using:
>>>>>>>>       git tag -f -m 'Apache Accumulo 1.5.4' -s 1.5.4
>>>>>>>> 12a1041dcbb7f3b10543c305f27ece4b0d65ab9c
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Staging repo:
>>>>>>>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheaccumulo-1039
>>>>>>>> Source (official release artifact):
>>>>>>>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheaccumulo-1039/org/apache/accumulo/accumulo/1.5.4/accumulo-1.5.4-src.tar.gz
>>>>>>>> Binary:
>>>>>>>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheaccumulo-1039/org/apache/accumulo/accumulo/1.5.4/accumulo-1.5.4-bin.tar.gz
>>>>>>>> (Append ".sha1", ".md5", or ".asc" to download the
>> signature/hash
>>>> for
>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> given artifact.)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All artifacts were built and staged with:
>>>>>>>>       mvn release:prepare&&   mvn release:perform
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signing keys are available at
>>>>> https://www.apache.org/dist/accumulo/KEYS
>>>>>>>> (Expected fingerprint: ABC8914C675FAD3FA74F39B2D146D62CAB471AE9)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Release notes (in progress) can be found at
>>>>>>>> https://accumulo.apache.org/release_notes/1.5.4
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please vote one of:
>>>>>>>> [ ] +1 - I have verified and accept...
>>>>>>>> [ ] +0 - I have reservations, but not strong enough to vote
>>>> against...
>>>>>>>> [ ] -1 - Because..., I do not accept...
>>>>>>>> ... these artifacts as the 1.5.4 release of Apache Accumulo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This vote will end on Thurs Sep  10 23:00:00 UTC 2015
>>>>>>>> (Thurs Sep  10 20:00:00 EDT 2015 / Thurs Sep  10 17:00:00 PDT
>>> 2015)
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> P.S. Hint: download the whole staging repo with
>>>>>>>>       wget -erobots=off -r -l inf -np -nH \
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheaccumulo-1039/
>>>>>>>>       # note the trailing slash is needed
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sean
>>>
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