All, Our policy for granting access to the Geronimo TCK test harness is described here -- https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxPMGT/geronimo-project-policies.html#GeronimoProjectPolicies-AccesstoTCK
The policy describes a 72 hour waiting period when granting non-Geronimo committers read-only access to our TCK test harness. This period was intended to allow the Geronimo PMC time to provide oversight on these requests. Presumably, a PMC member could block someone's request (though this has never occurred and I can't, frankly, imagine a case where we would block someone's request). If we had our preference, our TCK test harness would not be in a private svn. It would instead be publicly readable by all. I would like to remove the 72 hour waiting period from our policy. If an ASF committer requests access to our test harness, I believe we should grant this access immediately. The 72 hour waiting period might have been more meaningful when the Geronimo project maintained and distributed the Sun (now Oracle) TCK. As a reminder, these materials are obtained via an agreement between the ASF and Sun/Oracle. To gain access to these materials, an ASF committer must sign an NDA. We still maintain/distribute the Sun/Oracle TCK for Java EE 5. However, the JCP project is maintaining the newer TCK materials. The JCP does not have a waiting period for granting access to the JCP maintained TCK materials. Comments? Objections? If I don't hear any objections, I'll plan on updating our policy and removing the 72 hour window... --kevan
