It seems reasonable to import to another area, and port stuff over to trunk as you have vetted it. You will make your SVN history a bit less clear, but the history will still be there.
We just can't do that in private. Upayavira On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 08:58 +0100, Dan Haywood wrote: > On 05/10/2010 07:32, Upayavira wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 20:55 +0000, Mark Struberg wrote: > > > > "IP cleared"? Is there anything you don't have the right to publish in > > there? Or is it just that you haven't ensured everything is licensed > > correctly? > > It is IP cleared. > > One of my sister projects to be imported currently uses Hibernate (LGPL) > which needs to be removed as a dependency; this was identified in the > proposal. > > > The /asf/repos SVN repository is considered entirely public. Folks can > > get dumps of it, that will not sit behind the ASF authz file, so > > anything that you put in there will be visible to some folks. > > > > Remember that the rules for putting stuff into SVN are much more relaxed > > than those for making releases. So long as you aren't breaking > > copyright, you can put stuff into SVN. > > > > What is the stuff that you don't feel comfortable having public? > The codebases being imported currently live on SourceForge, so are > already public. > > Mark's suggestion (Mark is our champion) to import this stuff into a > different area than trunk seemed reasonable to us, for two reasons: > 1) It helps us separate out code with a non-ASF licensed dependencies. > 2) It also lets us make sure we get things like imports and class > renames sorted out before we move it into trunk. One of the conditions > from Naked Objects Group Ltd (who've granted an CCLA for this code) is > that the product is no longer called "Naked Objects"; that means > removing all references to "NakedObject" in the codebase (eg > NakedObjectException -> IsisException). > > Long term, I don't myself see any reason per se to mark that area > private, other than to avoid confusion from anyone informally browsing > the SVN repo and wondering which is the main trunk. But I think Mark > has also responded to your point. > > Dan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
