On 18 November 2011 19:33, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:01 AM, sebb wrote: > >> On 18 November 2011 15:04, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 17, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Kevan Miller wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:10 PM, sebb wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 17 November 2011 16:30, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Sebb, >>>>>> >>>>>> Just to want to clarify on the source distribution. It seems there are >>>>>> other Apache projects that release a single distribution with both source >>>>>> code and jars. For example, >>>>>> http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache//zookeeper/zookeeper-3.3.3/ . So, is >>>>> >>>>> I don't think that's a good example to follow. >>>>> >>>>>> source distribution strictly required? >>>>> >>>>> In my opinion, yes. >>>> >>>> I agree with Sebb. >>> >>> I am still confused. All the source code that is needed to build the >>> product is in the tgz. Can someone explain how that's not a source >>> distribution? >> >> The way I read the releases page [1] - see last para of section - a >> binary release is an optional extra which is provided as a separate >> file. >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what > > This is a reasonable opinion about how releases should be structured that I > also share but, that decision is for the community of that project to decide. > So long as the distribution contains all the necessary source code to build > the artifact we shouldn't care what else they bundle in it unless it becomes > an intolerable burden to our infrastructure. These kinds of qualitative > decisions are best left to the community of that project to decide.
As I pointed out on the Board list, I don't see this as a matter for the PMC to decide. > Regards, > Alan > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
