Oh, and I'm reformatting NOTICE now as well. The .gitignore files - I'll
open a bug to remove the top-level one from the tarball, but the ones that
show up deeper are expected by the build process.

A.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Bayer <andrew.ba...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Which source files are missing the headers? I know there are some files
> without headers, but the ones I know of are that way because they're
> expected to be in certain formats, they don't allow comments, etc - these
> should only be Debian/RPM packaging files, unless I'm missing something.
>
> As to the package contents - as far as I can tell, everything is under
> bigtop-0.1.0-incubating. The contents there are the same as in SVN, same
> layout as in SVN, etc. The content under test is not yet being built/used,
> and may well be reorganized later, but it's all there. If there are any
> inconsistencies with what's in SVN, let me know and I'll check it out.
>
> Adding DISCLAIMER now.
>
> A.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:48 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19 August 2011 19:25, Andrew Bayer <andrew.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This is the first incubator release for Apache Bigtop, version
>> > 0.1.0-incubating.
>> >
>> > It fixes the following issues:
>> >
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12317549&styleName=Html&projectId=12311420
>> >
>> > *** Please download, test, and vote by Wednesday, August 24 (3 working
>> days
>> > from now)
>> >
>> > Note that we are voting on the source (tag).
>> >
>> > Source tarball, checksums, signature:
>> > http://people.apache.org/~abayer/bigtop-0.1.0-incubating-candidate-0/
>>
>> A lot of source files don't have any license headers.
>> There's no DISCLAIMER in the archive; needs also to be added to SVN
>> alongside NOTICE and LICENSE.
>>
>> The DISCLAIMER text must also be prominently displayed on the bigtop
>> website.
>>
>> IMO these must be fixed before a release.
>>
>> The NOTICE file has a slightly different layout from normal (not a
>> blocker).
>> It would look better if the paragraph were wrapped after "developed
>> at" - as is normally done - because the URL would then not be left
>> dangling.
>>
>> I would not expect the .gitignore files to be included in the source
>> release.
>>
>> There seems to be a problem with the packaging of the archive - I
>> would expect all files to be under the top-level directory
>> bigtop-0.1.0-incubating, but there are also parallel directories
>> package, sqoop, smokes etc.  This makes it very difficult to check the
>> archive against the source archive.
>>
>> Again, I think this needs to be fixed before release.
>>
>> > The tag to be voted on:
>> >
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/bigtop/tags/release-0.1.0-incubating
>>
>> > Bigtop's KEYS file, containing the PGP keys used to sign the release:
>> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/bigtop/dist/KEYS
>>
>> sig is OK
>>
>> > Note that the Incubator PMC needs to vote on the release after a
>> successful
>> > PPMC vote before any release can be made official.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > A.
>> >
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