The Aries community has voted on its second release. From the Aries home page:

"The Aries project is delivering a set of pluggable Java components
enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. This
includes implementations and extensions of application-focused
specifications defined by the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group
(EEG) and an assembly format for multi-bundle applications, for
deployment to a variety of OSGi based runtimes."

Aries is a multi-module project. The vote thread on aries-dev for RC05:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-aries-dev/201008.mbox/%3C4C77E9EF.30303@gmail.com%3E


concluded with 10 votes (all of them +1) three of which were binding
IPMC votes from Jarek Gawor, Kevan Miller and Guillaume Nodet.

The following Aries top level modules are staged and tagged in
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/aries/tags/.

There are 13  Aries modules in the release, staged as follows:

Modules staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-113/ are: parent, eba-maven-plugin, testsupport, org.apache.aries.util,web. Links to the source releases are given below:

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-113/org/apache/aries/parent/0.2-incubating/parent-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-113/org/apache/aries/eba-maven-plugin/0.2-incubating/eba-maven-plugin-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-113/org/apache/aries/testsupport/testsupport/0.2-incubating/testsupport-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-113/org/apache/aries/org.apache.aries.util/0.2-incubating/org.apache.aries.util-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-113/org/apache/aries/web/web/0.2-incubating/web-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

Modules staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-129/ are: quiesce, jndi, transaction, application, samples. Links to the source releases are given below:


https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-129/org/apache/aries/quiesce/quiesce/0.2-incubating/quiesce-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-129/org/apache/aries/jndi/jndi/0.2-incubating/jndi-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-129/org/apache/aries/transaction/transaction/0.2-incubating/transaction-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-129/org/apache/aries/application/application/0.2-incubating/application-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-129/org/apache/aries/samples/samples/0.2-incubating/samples-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

Modules staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-138/ are: jpa

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-138/org/apache/aries/jpa/jpa/0.2-incubating/jpa-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

Modules staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-152/ are: blueprint
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-152/org/apache/aries/blueprint/blueprint/0.2-incubating/blueprint-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip

Modules staged at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-153/ are: jmx
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachearies-153/org/apache/aries/jmx/jmx/0.2-incubating/jmx-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip


The RAT and IANAL build checks passed.

The KEYS file located here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/aries/KEYS

contains the code signing key for myself, Zoe Slattery, the release
manager for this release.

We have 3 binding +1 IPMC votes on the aries-dev list, and I'm
opening up this thread for 72 hours for any further feedback on the
staged artifacts for release.