On 9/28/07, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 28 September 2007 16:16, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > IMHO the incubator PMC doesn't care much about technical issues in > > podling releases, at least for early releases. > > This is an important observation. The reviewers has no opportunity to > figure > out if the release at all work. That is up to the Podling, and AFAIA > concerned, the technical quality can be non-existent. > IMHO, the mentors are responsible together with the PPMC to bring the > technical quality to a level expected from ASF projects. But I feel it is > at > that group's discretion. > AFAIR, technical quality hasn't been a problem in the past for > graduations.
Yes, and there is some quality expectations for real (non-incubating) Apache releases so Incubator release reviews help podlings learn about those, past review discussions have brought up various non-legal aspects, for example consistent artifact naming, distributions not unzipping to the current folder etc. ...ant
