On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:14 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >>... >> This looks similar to the Syncope release vote thats also happening >> right now in that the source distribution includes things like JQuery >> but doesn't mention that in the LICENSE file. I'm a bit surprised >> people are continuing to vote +1 on the Syncope release knowing that >> so am I getting this wrong and the JQuery license doesn't need to be >> included here for some reason? > > My feeling on the matter here is that these are incubating projects. > We allow things like (L)GPL dependencies in the releases, as long as a > PLAN exists to get rid of them. Of course, it must be perfectly clean > to graduate. But I believe we have wiggle room while incubating. > > As Branko noted, the included projects are mentioned in the NOTICE > file, but that isn't quite Right. The 0.2.0 release will get it > corrected. > > We could have stepped back and rolled another tarball, but I believe > it is more important for Bloodhound to get a release out [than to be > perfect on 0.1.0], in order to get some traction and some attraction > to build a larger community. The BH folks plan to release every few > weeks, so we should see the corrections in a release at the end of the > month. (or we could convince Gary to do another in a week or two :-) > > Cheers, > -g >
Gosh i'm pretty sure we _don't_ allow things like (L)GPL dependencies in Incubator releases, we allow them in the source in SVN but i don't recall any releases like that. Anyway thats beside the point, ok so lets have this be a precedent that sets Incubator policy - we now have some wiggle room while incubating to do a release that violates ASF release policy as long as it will be fixed soon in another release and definitely before graduating. A policy like that would help a lot with avoiding the numerous respins some poddling releases are made to do during voting on general@. ...ant ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
