Jukka, Thanks for your response, this is very helpful. I have a couple of questions/clarifications inlined.
On May 4, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > > > * As far as I can tell from the discussion, the BigTop repos directory > [1] doesn't neatly fit into either of the above categories. I guess > the key question here is whether the purpose of BigTop is to be a > particular, tested combination of upstream projects or rather a tool > for testing and building such combinations. (Or perhaps something else > entirely?) > > * If the former, then each subdirectory of [1] falls fairly > conveniently into the traditional concept of convenience binaries > built from the source release. The only extra thing you'd need is a > proper set of license metadata and signatures for the binaries. My question here was whether this concept of convenience binaries should extend beyond ASF owned packages. I realize that many existing convenience binaries contain non-ASF jars, etc. But taking the next step of explicitly distributing non-ASF binaries on their own concerns me. > > * If the latter, it seems to me that it isn't BigTop that should be > distributing the packages in [1]. Instead each upstream project should > using BigTop as a tool to produce such packages as a part of their own > release processes. > > * In that case there might still be a role for BigTop to provide a > central repository for such easily consumable upstream releases. This > would be somewhat similar to the discussions that took place a few > years ago about whether and how the ASF could host something like the > central Maven repository. Do you know what list that discussion took place on and a general time frame? Reading through that would be very helpful for my thinking on this topic. Alan. > > [1] http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/bigtop/bigtop-0.3.0-incubating/repos/ > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
