[RESULT] [VOTE] Velocity Engine 1.6-beta2 release

[Nathan Bubna <nb...@gmail.com>]

The vote has passed:

+1 from
Nathan Bubna
Malcolm Edgar
Ilkka Priha
matthis lambooy
Claude Brisson
Henning Schmiedehausen
Will Glass-Husain

No other votes recorded.  I'll push this out as soon as i'm able...

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Will Glass-Husain
<wg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Voting +1.  Terrific work, Nathan.
>
> Tested:
> * "ant test" on Win XP, JDK 1.5
> * "ant test" on Win XP, JDK 1.6
> * Checked the md5sums.
> * Compared the zip contents to tar gz contents to jar file
> * reviewed the text files, API docs, quick glance at other docs
> * Ran all the examples.  found a few classpath-related bugs.  no big deal.
> (fixed several, opened JIRA on two)
>
> Question -- the "Changes" file in the docs is incorrect (missing beta2
> stuff).  Is there a generator for that file that needs to be run before
> creating the release artifact?  Ok to have this be a miss for a beta, though
> it'd be nice to have it.  (yes, next time I'll check this before the vote
> :-)
>
> WILL
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Nathan Bubna <nb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There was no negative feedback on the test build (no feedback at all
>> actually), so i'm moving on to a vote.
>>
>> The test build is still available here:
>>  http://people.apache.org/~nbubna/velocity/engine/1.6-beta2/<http://people.apache.org/%7Enbubna/velocity/engine/1.6-beta2/>
>>
>> Please vote regarding your support for releasing this new test build as
>> Velocity Engine 1.6-beta2:
>>
>> [ ] +1 Let's do it
>> [ ] +0 Have fun; i don't care.
>> [ ] -0  Not sure about this, but i won't stop you.
>> [ ] -1 No, because __________________
>>
>> The voting period is typically 72 hours, putting its close time as
>> roughly 4pm PST on Sunday, Oct 26th.  If the vote passes, I'll push
>> this to the mirrors and perhaps begin struggling to update the web site.
>> With luck i'll announce it on Monday.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Nathan Bubna <nb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ok folks, here's a build for Engine 1.6-beta2.
>> >
>> > http://people.apache.org/~nbubna/velocity/engine/1.6-beta2/<http://people.apache.org/%7Enbubna/velocity/engine/1.6-beta2/>
>> >
>> > Since 1.6-beta1 there have been many small bugfixes and improvements
>> > and one notable new feature: the "runtime.references.strict" mode.
>> > Most of these things were contributed by Byron Foster.  Many thanks to
>> > him for his hard work.
>> >
>> > please kick the tires, report any nitpicks and prepare to vote on this
>> > soon.  assuming no one sees any problems, i'll call for a release vote
>> > in a couple days.  with luck, that vote will close this weekend, and i
>> > can push this release out for announcement on Monday.
>> >
>> > with only one minor, non-docs, non-build JIRA issue left in the 1.6
>> > category, i have no reason to do any betas for 1.6 after this, so
>> > please give this one a try.  1.6 looks to be our most solid and
>> > performant release yet, so i'd hate to have any surprises that would
>> > necessitate a 1.6.1.  it would be much better to find issues now.  :)
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > nathan
>> >
>>
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