should we just not bother with votes for prereleases? To be honest, I can't see the harm in accidentally pushing a prerelease tarball at the wrong time -- and this is the second 3.2.0-preX that isn't garnering votes, so clearly the process is getting in the way here. :(
(Votes for "official" full releases, of course, would still be necessary) --j. Justin Mason writes: > > hey committers / PMC members -- > > please gimme your votes on these prerelease tarballs: > > http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.bz2 > http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.gz > http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.zip > > Here's the proposed announce mail. There's no "release highlights/ > changes" (yet), but that shouldn't stop the tarballs! Once we have > 3 votes, I'll post the announcement. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To: users, dev > Subject: NOTICE: SpamAssassin 3.2.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available > > SpamAssassin 3.2.0-pre2 is released! > This is a *prerelease* of SpamAssassin 3.2.0; not the full release. > > SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and > heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited bulk email). > > Highlights of the release > ------------------------- > > (TODO ;) > > Downloading > ----------- > > http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.bz2 > http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.gz > http://people.apache.org/~jm/devel/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.zip > > md5sum of archive files: > > b530e3b3b828cc0fbe8ee738a300dcef Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.bz2 > 5c84180b188f2dde9bb6ff5e11bf35e6 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.gz > 9b5d4a335b18ef49103e81e04df1df4e Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.zip > > sha1sum of archive files: > > 99080918fe4d194923a672443c49a14473310b34 > Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.bz2 > 9878e61bd3f9fc90903ac5840b5dd61cffe94400 > Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.tar.gz > f65c4bf5ea09d5e887bef0ca1d851d1ad8b45698 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0-pre2.zip > > The release files also have a .asc accompanying them. The file serves > as an external GPG signature for the given release file. The signing > key is available via the wwwkeys.pgp.net key server, as well as > http://spamassassin.apache.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY > > The key information is: > > pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Key fingerprint =3D 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24 F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B > > Important installation notes > ---------------------------- > > - see the INSTALL and UPGRADE files in the distribution. > > Summary of major changes since 3.1.x > ------------------------------------ > > (TODO ;)
