Martijn Dashorst wrote: > Yes, *AND* ensuring legal dots are put on the i's and j's. This is > done through checking the release and ensuring that it is in adherence > to our policies which you and others have crafted. *All* podlings have > to ensure they have the correct licensing headers, notices and other > bits in place before they can graduate. > > AFAIK releases done by podlings are legally more sound than > established projects at Apache. Do you consider that a bad thing? > What strikes me is that because the SVN project has many old boys > network guys on board, somehow the policy to what all podlings are > subjected to is no longer valid? >
I don't disagree to checking the legal bits and pieces. But what I read up to now, in the other thread, was more to the tune of checking release quality and procedures. I got stuck on the "quality" part; I for one will not sign off a Subversion release if I know it's broken, and apparently the legal bits can be verified in other ways. Clearly it's up to the Incubator PMC and/or Mentors to decide what does or does not make sense here. If "make a proper release" is indeed the verdict, then Subversion will remain incubating for several months at least. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does leave a strange taste in the mouth, especially given how much effort we've already put in running our project according to ASF standards. Oh and by the way, ranting about old-boys networks was pretty much the last thing I expected to read on this list. Is the meritocracy blues all nonsense then? Just askin' ... -- Brane, not an ASF member --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org