You need the sources in case GIT has a major meltdown. Additionally, the sources + javadoc can be distributed through Maven.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 1:31 PM Lyor Goldstein <lgoldst...@apache.org> wrote: > > sources that are posted there and tried to build from them ? How is it > even > > possible - after all (AFAIK) they do not form a valid Maven project ? > > >> They should. What's the pount in distributing a source package if you > can't build it ? > > >> Also keep in mind that Apache does *only* distribute source packages, > binary packages are proposed for convenience only. Any source pckages > should be buildable. > > Thanks for the clarification - I was not aware of this (one learns > something new every day...). I will try and do as you suggested and see for > myself if the issue you reported is reproducible. As you yourself indicated > it is puzzling since the sources are supposedly a copy of the github ones > and as you mentioned, the github repository can be successfully built. > > As a side-bar, in the era of github does it make sense to mandate > publishing the sources ? After all, they are publicly available to whoever > wants to clone the repository and build the project. Perhaps Apache should > reconsider the policy and allow projects that have a public (!) git hub > repository avoid the need to publish the sources.... > > Lyor G. >
