On Sat, 11 Sep 2021, 21:05 Matthias Bläsing, <[email protected]> wrote:
> while I mostly agree, I notice that discussions in the Apache legal > area have the tendency to end somewhere in gray land ... > > This is suggestion how to get rid of the JARs: > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3162 > > Before anyone says it: Yes there are other elephants (zip like files) > in the repository, but these are not the current discussion topic. > Too late, I already had! :-) I'm not sure ASF rules are that grey here. No compiled code in source releases. Archives allowed, but perhaps discouraged. Given that, while not required, probably still some small benefit to removing jar files to ease the voting checks for compiled code. Although we should probably mention the branding folders. At the same time, given our release processes, these jars have probably had far more eyes on content than other archives. I've personally checked those jar files multiple times. Not sure I've ever looked in some of those other archives. Have you? How documented are the contents? Best wishes, Neil
