[RESULT] [VOTE] Release UIMA 2.3.0 RC9 as UIMA 2.3.0 incubating

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Marshall Schor wrote:
> This build keeps the uimacpp and sandbox components from the previous release
> candidate (the download site on people.apache.org/~schor has hard links to the
> previous artifacts - so they are guaranteed to be identical).
>
> We've had a few sanity checks for the RC9 build, including installing the
> Eclipse plugins via the RC9 update site on both linux and windows, and running
> downloading & installing the base uima and uima-as binary components and running
> the installation verification tests - and everything looks good.
>
>
> This build consists of 4 major components: the core UIMA framework
> (uimaj), the C++ enablement (uimacpp), the Asynchronous Scaleout
> component (uima-as) and a set of annotators and other add-ons (sandbox).
>
> These have been through more than 3 months of validation and testing (counting
> the previous release candidates).  The build process was strengthened to include
> running RAT (the Release Audit tool) automatically and verifying no RAT issues
> are found (except for the uimacpp part, where it is still run and verified
> manually).
>
> The release artifacts are available on
> http://people.apache.org/~schor/uima-release-candidates/2.3.0-RC9/
>
> These artifacts include a partial version of the Eclipse Update Site for
> the Eclipse plugins, but is complete for the 2.3.0 release.
>
> The release is digitally signed by Marshall Schor for all the components
> except for the C++ component, which is signed by Edward Epstein.
>
> No new export control issues are needed for the components; only the uima-as
> component continues to be classified as 5D002 because it includes Apache
> ActiveMQ which is so classified (see http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/ )
>
> Please vote on approving this release.  This vote is for all 4
> components, together. After the UIMA committers vote, we will ask the
> IPMC to vote.
>
> [ ] +1 Release RC9, it's ready
> [ ] -1 Don't release yet because of these issues which need to be
> addressed first: ...
>
> --Marshall

The vote has been open more than 72 hours (excluding weekends).

It passes with votes as follows:
  Marshall Schor +1
  Tommaso Teofili +1
  Tong Fin +1
  Adam Lally +1
  Michael Baessler +1
  Jaroslaw Cwiklik +1
  Jörn Kottmann +1
  Jukka Zitting (mentor) +1

No other votes were received.

Thanks, everyone, for the time you took in preparing, testing, and
reviewing this release!

Now I'll ask the IPMC to vote on this release.

-Marshall