[incubation] rdf4j first milestone release - couple of questions

[Jeen Broekstra <jeen.broekstra@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

The technology.rdf4j incubation project is at the point where, technically, 
we're about ready to do our first release. However, since we're still in 
incubation (and parallel IP review is ongoing) we must take babysteps, and 
instead of a "full" release do a Milestone release instead.

Now as said, technically the code is in a good enough state to do this. Where I 
have some questions and can use some confirmation is everything surrounding this 
first milestone.

First of all: it is my understanding that for a milestone release such as we 
want to do, no full release review is necessary. Is that correct?

Second, I know that I need a 'release plan' in place. In fact I've already 
created a simple one:

 https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.rdf4j/releases/2.0

However from what I understand this is intended for "proper" releases (i.e. once 
we come out of incubation). So should I already have this up and complete for 
this milestone build already - and what should be in it, precisely? This release 
is rather boring as it just is feature-equal to the last release we did under 
our old project name. Also, not sure how I add issues to this plan: it seems to 
assume we use Bugzilla rather than GitHub issues.

Third: I know we need to keep an IP Log and of course we have one here:

 https://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=technology.rdf4j

Do I need to do anything with this at this point? I know it's normally part of 
the release review so I assume that it's not necessary to submit for a milestone 
build, but I thought I'd check.

Anything else I overlooked? Ideally we'd like to push this build out the door in 
the next week or so, but of course if a review is necessary then we can postpone 
a little longer.

Kind regards,

Jeen

PS in case you're wondering: our first release uses version 2.0, not 1.0, 
because we plan to do a "backport" to Java 7 later and release that as 1.0.