Johannes Schaefer wrote: > > I don't know how to proceed: > - Is such an installer of general interest?
I would think so. Does the user needs any pre-requisites? > - Who may help "polish" it (e.g. uninstall, icons, ...)? Anyone. > - How to commit? The script is easily committed but what about the .exe? There are probably past discussions about how to handle this sort of thing on the ASF legal-discuss mail list http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal I am no expert, so the following are some quick thoughts. I am away for a while so hopefully other PMC members will help. I have some concerns about where in our SVN it should live, and how to distribute it. The user needs to see the license files for Forrest and our NOTICE file where some supporting products require prominent attribution. The script should go in our main trunk SVN. The exe probably should go on the distribution mirrors alongside our release. If so then it would need to follow our normal release process. Perhaps look at how some other ASF projects manage and distribute such installers. ------- I gather that you or another Windows-based committer runs the script to generate the .exe using a certain version of NSIS. Obviously the script would need the standard Apache License header. The exe should have a commit message saying which version of NSIS and Forrest it was built with. Check your SVN properties too for both *.nsi (as normal native text file) and *.exe (needs executable property). The former is yet not in the list of auto-properties provided for ASF committers local config [3]. [3] http://apache.org/dev/version-control.html#https-svn-config -David
