I agree too! Lin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Kevan Miller <kevan.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
