Re: [DISCUSS] Creation of first version 0.50

[Kevin Ratnasekera <dj...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:13 PM Hans Van Akelyen <ha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We have come at a point that we should discuss creating our first Apache
> release version.
> One of our mentors suggested that our first release be a source code only
> release to reduce complexity of the release and to see if our code passes
> the checks done by the IPMC.

I suspect that our mentors will also first
> take a good look at this first candidate and point us to possible issues.
>
> We have checked all the dependencies we currently use and have the
> following ticket to do the follow up on work items [1]. Question to the
> mentors, does this have to be included in the release somewhere? release
> notes/disclaimer ?
>
> Another thing that has also already been done is checking all header files,
> we have a couple of files that will need removal in the future when an
> alternative is created. These files have been listed in the LICENSE file
> [2]. Mentors, is this sufficient?
>
> So to summarize, does everyone feel comfortable with a source only release
> as a first version?
>
+1 for source code only release and documenting the entire release process.

> And do the mentors see any red flags or have a list somewhere on things
> that are checked, I went over [3] and it looks like we comply.
>
> Cheers,
> Hans
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-2182
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/blob/20aea10eaf497cf1be7251af4e352deb1cc6a53a/LICENSE#L206
> [3] https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
>