Community feedback on release votes: we need you

2015-10-28 Thread Hervé Boutemy
Dear Apache Maven Community, Recently, in a discussion within the PMC, we discovered a complete misconception about release votes: a lot of people feel that voting on releases is not useful if you are not in the PMC. That's wrong! After digging into the issue, we found that a few years ago, whe

Suggestions for the Announcement Mail for Maven 3.3.7 with credit to contributor/reports

2015-10-28 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, i have prepared an announcement mail content and want to know if this would be ok...I would also emphasize the naming of contributor/reports WDYT ? === START == The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven 3.3.7.

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Connolly
FYI Mark, your vote is binding as a contributor... i.e. if you voted -1 the release manager would have to consider aborting the release, your vote just does not provide one of the three required +1's by PMC members required to invoke the foundation legal protections for contributors. (A release ma

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, just a note on this conclusion which remembers me that we should add those cotributors to the final announcment mail and put them on the release notes as well...to give them the credit they deserve instead of only mention them here on the dev list... BTW: Thanks to Stephen to summarize t

[ANN] Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 2.4.2 Released

2015-10-28 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin Version 2.4.2. This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies. https://maven.apac

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Mark Derricutt
On 29 Oct 2015, at 2:30, Jason van Zyl wrote: > Time to release Maven 3.3.7! +1 non-binding. Works fine on our builds using heavy maven-tiles, and my largish IT test project all works fine. Been doing releases and builds all day with no issue. Mark -- Mark Derricutt http://www.theoryinprac

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
Thanks very much for cleaning up JIRA. jvz > On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote: > > Hi, > > I have cleaned up JIRA ...moved all not solved issues to Backlog for 3.X > > Furthermore checked with several projects...maven-jar-plugin, > maven-assembly-plugin (current trunk),

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Benson Margulies
Sure you can close the PR. Put 'Closes #nn.' in a commit message. On Oct 28, 2015 4:38 PM, "Stephen Connolly" wrote: > I > > On Wednesday 28 October 2015, Michael Osipov wrote: > > > Am 2015-10-28 um 18:28 schrieb Stephen Connolly: > > > >> Thanks for contributions from non-committers go to: > >

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, I have cleaned up JIRA ...moved all not solved issues to Backlog for 3.X Furthermore checked with several projects...maven-jar-plugin, maven-assembly-plugin (current trunk), some of my own projects (uptodate-maven-plugin, iterator-maven-plugin, test-maven-eventspy etc.) without any issue.

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Connolly
I On Wednesday 28 October 2015, Michael Osipov wrote: > Am 2015-10-28 um 18:28 schrieb Stephen Connolly: > >> Thanks for contributions from non-committers go to: >> * Martin Schäf >> * Joseph Walton >> * Keith Turner >> * Anton Tanasenko >> * Stephen Kitt >> * "tssp at web dot de" (whoever you

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Maven Shade Plugin version 2.4.2 (Take 2)

2015-10-28 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, The vote has passed with the following result: +1 (binding): Tibor Digana, Olivier Lamy, Karl Heinz Marbaise, Benson Margulies +1 (non binding): Uwe Barthel I will promote the artifacts to the central repo. Kind regards Karl Heinz Marbaise ---

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Osipov
Am 2015-10-28 um 14:30 schrieb Jason van Zyl: Hi, Time to release Maven 3.3.7! Here is a link to the issues resolved: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316922&version=12333074 Staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1228/ The dis

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Michael Osipov
Am 2015-10-28 um 18:28 schrieb Stephen Connolly: Thanks for contributions from non-committers go to: * Martin Schäf * Joseph Walton * Keith Turner * Anton Tanasenko * Stephen Kitt * "tssp at web dot de" (whoever you are - a small commit with clear intent of Apache License grant) * "sugartxy " (o

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Connolly
Here is my vote: * As a community member on the technical merit of making this specific release +1: I have tested this build on the projects that I know are troublesome and the regressions in 3.3.1 and 3.3.3 are resolved. * As a member of the committee established by the ASF board with responsib

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Maven JDeps Plugin version 3.0.0

2015-10-28 Thread Robert Scholte
+1 Robert Scholte

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Paul Benedict
My point, if I was unclear my apologies, was that the backlog should just be where work is to be found. And if you find work, then move it into the next release version. I think that's a simple "one-stop shopping" way to look at this. It's just a suggestion I thought could help. Cheers, Paul On

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
If I put them in the backlog I will completely forget about them. If someone else wants to shuffle the issues go for it. jvz > On Oct 28, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Paul Benedict wrote: > > FYI, 14 unresolved issues need to move to 3.3.x to make the JIRA list > correct. > > PS: Instead of moving the u

Re: [VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Paul Benedict
FYI, 14 unresolved issues need to move to 3.3.x to make the JIRA list correct. PS: Instead of moving the unresolved forward to a 3.3.8 bucket, how come they aren't put in the Backlog? It would save churn. The Backlog should be cherry-picked and tickets pulled into the next release when work is rea

[VOTE] Maven 3.3.7

2015-10-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
Hi, Time to release Maven 3.3.7! Here is a link to the issues resolved: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316922&version=12333074 Staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1228/ The distributable binaries and sources for testing can