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 ;)

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