Minor clarification: my -1 is not a veto. Releases are majority approval. But I am strongly against releasing an artefact before we have the documentation on the mailing lists (at the very least) that we have the legal right to do so.
http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#MajorityApproval On 10 October 2013 15:22, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > Sigs: OK > Hashes: OK > Diff: Ok > Scan: OK > Installation: OK > > The NOTICE and LICENSE files have some errors in them, relating to > imported docs. > > NOTICE: > > > * httpdomain.py > > I think we can shorten this URL. No need for it to be the precise location > of the file. > > > * views/intro.rst views/nosql.rst views/pagination.rst > > The copyright here should be attributed to myself, Jan, and J. Chris. > > LICENSE: > > No license file for: > > externals.rst > protocol.rst > views/intro.rst views/nosql.rst views/pagination.rst > joins.rst > > The licenses for those files are: > > externals.rst > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > > protocol.rst > *NO EXPLICIT LICENSE* > I have asked Benoit to to license this to us on another thread. > > views/intro.rst views/nosql.rst views/pagination.rst > Creative Commons Attribution > > joins.rst > *NO EXPLICIT LICENSE* > I have asked Christopher to to license this to us on another thread. > > share/doc/src/couchapp/views/joins.rst > > The copyright notice in here for Christopher's work should be moved to > NOTICE. (Which is where all copyright notices must be moved.) > > I am -1 on this release until we get explicit licenses for those two > files. If we get the licenses, I will remove my veto. > > No need to re-cut the release. The important thing here is that we have > the legal right to distribute these files, and that our end users will have > no problems using them, and re-distributing them. That's our primary > responsibility. The documentation of that fact (in LICENSE, NOTICE, etc) is > less critical, and so we can leave it for now, but we must fix these issues > for the next release. > > > > On 9 October 2013 21:26, Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Dear community, >> >> I would like to release Apache CouchDB 1.5.0-rc.2, which, unlike rc1, >> includes the fauxton sources. >> >> Changes since last round: >> >> * >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/1.5.x >> >> We encourage the whole community to download and test these release >> artefacts so that any critical issues can be resolved before the >> release is made. Everyone is free to vote on this release, so get >> stuck in! >> >> The release artefacts we are voting on are available here: >> >> wget >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz >> wget >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.asc >> wget >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.ish >> wget >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.md5 >> wget >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.sha >> >> Please follow the test procedure here: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Test_procedure >> >> Please remember that "rc.2" is an annotation. If the vote passes, >> these artefacts will be released as Apache CouchDB 1.5.0. >> >> Please cast your votes now. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dirkjan >> > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater > > -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
