Re: [Proposal] re-release 0.9 with proper source code package

David Crossley wrote:
> All ASF projects need to release open-source software.
> 
> At Forrest we have made major efforts to define the explicit
> set of dependencies. We do not use Maven or Ivy to manage those
> at build time. Instead we provided a distribution package which
> contained all of those specific supporting product dependencies.
> 
> That is okay as a convenience.
> 
> However we need to provide a source code package which does not contain
> those external JAR files, and conduct our release vote against that package.
> Then we can construct other convenience packages for distribution.
> 
> There is a relevant discussion happening now at general <at>  Apache Incubator.
> The messages from Roy are particularly useful.
>  Subject: Binary dependencies in source releases
>  http://s.apache.org/IvC
> 
> We are aware of this situation, and need to act.
> 
> I have removed our distribution packages from apache.org/dist/forrest/
> and hence from the mirror system, adding a README-distribution.txt file.
> 
> I reckon that we can fix this by re-packaging our distribution as follows:
> 
> [A] apache-forrest-0.9-source.tar.gz
> [B] apache-forrest-0.9-dependencies.tar.gz
> [C] apache-forrest-0.9-binary.tar.gz
>