GA Release questions

clebert.suconic May 3, 2006 3:00 PM

I'm about to release jboss-serialization.

As jboss-serialization is a single jar, do I need to create a ZIP package also to put on sourceforge?

Can I distribute it only the jar by itself, or do I have to add release notes, source code and any other stuff in a ZIP file, tar and tgz files?

1. Re: GA Release questions

clebert.suconic May 3, 2006 3:06 PM (in response to clebert.suconic)

I talked to Ryan Campbel...

We will create a ZIP files with MD5 and that kind of stuff.
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2. Re: GA Release questions

ruel.loehr May 3, 2006 3:08 PM (in response to clebert.suconic)

Most of the standalone projects (e.g. cache, aop, jgroups) tend to release zip files. Generally there a number of things which are distributed in these zips.

1) A changelog
2) Thirdparty jars
3) Licenses for thirdparty jars
4) Documentation (javadocs, tutorials, test results)
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3. Re: GA Release questions

clebert.suconic May 3, 2006 3:11 PM (in response to clebert.suconic)

I'm dependent on log4j. which is apache license, right?

Can I redistribute log4j.jar in a thirdparty libraries?

I'm also dependent on trove.jar, but since trove is LGPL I don't think there is an issue here.
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4. Re: GA Release questions

ruel.loehr May 3, 2006 3:21 PM (in response to clebert.suconic)

Yes, but you must include the license. We have all of the licenses stored in the repository.

http://repository.jboss.com/licenses/
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5. Re: GA Release questions

dimitris May 4, 2006 3:30 AM (in response to clebert.suconic)

For small projects it often makes sense to release the full sources + dependencies, plus the pre-build binary/doc (i.e. jar in your case).

Congrats on the release!
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