Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Call for Validation of Apache NuttX 9.0.0 (incubating) RC0

[Brennan Ashton]

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--Brennan

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Brennan Ashton <bas...@brennanashton.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:32 PM
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Call for Validation of Apache NuttX 9.0.0 (incubating) RC0
To: <d...@nuttx.apache.org>

Some good news!

After many months of hard work by our users, code contributors, and a lot of patience

assistance from our Apache Mentors, Apache NuttX (Incubating) 9.0.0-RC0 has been staged

under [1].

While there were a lot of people who put serious work into the release I would like to
personally thank Abdelatif Guettouche who really stepped up to get the release process
moving.  The release process is not the part of working on the project that most of us
enjoy, but it is critical to sustaining and moving the project forward.  I am confident
that we can regain the cadence we took for granted in the past.

This all said this is a RELEASE CANDIDATE which means there is more work to be done.
Prior to calling for a vote we need help making sure this release is ready. Not only
do we need help testing the functionality of the release, we also need to make sure
we have properly prepared the release.

The Apache requirements for approving a release can be found here [2]
"Before voting +1 [P]PMC members are required to download the signed source code package,
compile it as provided, and test the resulting executable on their own platform, along
with also verifying that the package meets the requirements of the ASF policy on releases."

A document to walk through some of this process has been published on our project wiki
and can be found here [3].  I did try to walk through this document, but please comment
if you find anything not clear.

Thank you all,
Brennan Ashton

SCM Information:
  Release tag: releases/9.0.0-RC0
  Hash for the release incubating-nuttx tag: 4401e5b280b80eef5145a130b70a5abd2dd3860b
  Hash for the release incubating-nuttx-apps tag: 5b34b9dc7a0a0b1c69b78454ecd5acb41bfcb0df

[1] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/nuttx/9.0.0-RC0/
[2] https://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#approving-a-release
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/Validating+a+staged+Release
[4] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/nuttx-9.0.0-RC0/ReleaseNotes

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

What do you mean by validation? The way most project do this is with a formal [VOTE] thread on the release candidate or is this just checking that everyone is OK before calling a vote?

Thanks,
Justin

[Brennan Ashton]

What do you mean by validation? The way most project do this is with a formal [VOTE] thread on the release candidate or is this just checking that everyone is OK before calling a vote?

Since it is our first release I figured it would be worth giving people more time than the usual voting window to test and give feedback prior to formally opening the voting process.

If people think we should just skip to the vote I'm fine with that as well.

--Brennan

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

> Since it is our first release I figured it would be worth giving people more time than the usual voting window to test and give feedback prior to formally opening the voting process.

Totally up to to you as long as it clear what is happening.

Thanks,
Justin