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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:23:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Commons Pool 1.6-RC4
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
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On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:26 PM, sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 January 2012 17:06, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:55 AM, sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 9 January 2012 15:46, Gary Gregory <ggregory@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> Good day to you all:
>>>>
>>>> I have prepared Commons Pool 1.6-RC4.
>>>>
>>>> There is NO change from RC3.
>>>>
>>>> This RC exists because I blew up the Nexus staging repository for RC3
>>>> and a new RC is needed for a clean release process.
>>>>
>>>> The only changes from 1.5.7 are the additions of generics and
>>>> therefore requires Java 5.
>>>>
>>>> Tag:
>>>>
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/pool/tags/POOL_1_6_RC4/
>>>>
>>>> Site:
>>>>
>>>> https://people.apache.org/builds/commons/pool/1.6/RC4/
>>>>
>>>> Binaries:
>>>>
>>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-043/
>>>>
>>>> The link above includes checksum files.
>>>
>>> But these disappear when the staging repo is promoted or dropped, so
>>> this is not useful as a cross-check (if that's what's intended).
>>
>> Hm, I am not sure I understand. Cross check with what? The RC3 staging
>> repos is gone, it was not salvageable by a mere Maven/Nexus mortal
>> like me.
>
> I've not use Nexus upload much - I only used it to release the Daemon
> jars from the existing binary release, but that worked fine.
>
>> This is a new RC with my guarantee that nothing has changed from the
>> previous RC: the RC3 and RC4 tags contain the same version of the same
>> files.
>
> Which is necessary (but not sufficient) to ensure the release is the same.
>
>> Yes, the files were rebuilt by maven, but nothing changed in
>> the source files. I am taking the conservative path with a new RC and
>> vote instead of deploying to Nexus, closing, and releasing the repo,
>> because as you mentioned, we vote on the contents of a specific Nexus
>> staging repo. And yes the repo goes away after a release but that has
>> always been like that. Are you suggesting a different process?
>
> I'm suggesting that having the actual hashes in the VOTE e-mail is
> better for traceability as the dist and Maven repo contents can be
> linked directly to the VOTE.

Ok, so the contents of all *.sha1 and *.md5 should be in the VOTE email?

Can you update the VOTE section of
http://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus with exactly what you mean?

This is all good stuff, let's improve our process.

Thank you,
Gary

>
> I guess that one can also follow the Nexus promotion mail trail and
> tie it to the vote, but AFAICT that does not prove conclusively that
> the artifacts present in a repo are identical to the ones voted on.
>
> It would also have avoided needing to re-run the VOTE, had you (or
> someone else) been able to recreate the staging repo from the original
> files.

I tried to do a mvn deploy:deploy to redploy without building but
could not get it to work. I'm sure there is some Maven black magic to
do so but I did not take the time to figure that out.

Gary

>
>> Thank you,
>> Gary
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> [ ] +1 release it
>>>> [ ] +0 almost, please fix:
>>>> [ ] -1 no because:
>>>>
>>>> This VOTE is open for at least 72 hours, until Janurary 12 2011, 10:30 EST.
>>>>
>>>> Changes:
>>>> o [POOL-208] Support Java 1.5 Generics in version 1.x.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you and happy new year,
>>>> Gary
>>>>
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