Hi, BIll i finished the coding work and almost complete the testing job. i took a view of the grant file today. Is there a sample to guide me fill all the blanks?
regards, Kevin 2009/4/8 Bill Stoddard <[email protected]> > Samul Kevin wrote: > >> 2009/4/8 Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> >> >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Samul Kevin <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2009#preview... >>>> >>>> >>> It would be good, IMHO, to include some info about the community side >>> of things...a recent thread [1] seems to indicate that most of the >>> BlueSky committers are not working on the project anymore. >>> >>> >>> >> And the people who are now contributing to the project are not listed as >> commiters. It does not matter. Though acting slowly, people are working. >> I >> am now more seriously concerned about the progress. I thought the >> speeding >> of podling would be fastened , however, it is still like turtle >> crawling....in 1 and 3/4 month since the beginning of this semester. Yes, >> things get a little better now. But i don't think it is good enough. We >> have >> reasons, as having classes or working on several projects simultaneously, >> nevertheless, i don't think we can treat them as excuses to fend off not >> doing THIS PROJECT good. >> >> >> > > A critical milestone will be getting the code grant in place and checking > the code into svn. When the code is checked into svn, we can look for > contributors from outside the XJTU students and begin building a sustainable > community (I think we have some people in India interested in the project). > We simply have to begin releasing code from the ASF if the project is > ever to take the next step to sustainability. Samul, I will work with you > this week to do the next round of code review; > Here is the software grant that XJTU needs to submit for code developed by > XJTU: http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt > Please review and begin preparing it. > > Now... I have a very difficult question to ask... > Bluesky project relies heavily on video technology, most of which is not > suitable for redistribution by the ASF (due to licensing terms and > condition). The team has made a great effort over the past year to scrub > the project clean of incompatibly licensed code, but is it enough? My > concern is that the project will never be able to resolve the difficulties > around the licensing of the video technologies... and that maybe the ASF is > not the best home for Bluesky for this reason. > My question... can we really succeed in realizing the goals of the bluesky > project under the license and legal constraints imposed by the ASF? Is it > really possible? > > Bill > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samul Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU
