On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> >From: Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>
> >To: Karl Pauls <karlpa...@gmail.com>; "general@incubator.apache.org" <
> general@incubator.apache.org>
> >Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 10:44 AM
> >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Graduate ACE from the Apache Incubator
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> >"Hard to build" isn't a blocking criterion
> >for a release; so long as the artifacts can
> >be built from the distributed source files
> >using a repeatable and documented process you
> >are ok in my book. Downloading a pom from
> >an ASF mirror or from maven central doesn't
> >appearon the surface to be contradicting
> >what Iwrote in the first sentence here.
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> >("Downloading" from svn.a.o would be a problem
> >tho.)
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> >In any case, if you can make building from
> >source more convenient for end-users, that
> >would certainly count as an improvement.
> >But holding up graduation until that is
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> >actually done makes zero sense to me.
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Ditto.
--Alex
