On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...As one of the active developers I would have a serious problem if we as > project couldn't provide binary releases for our users. And I thought > the ASF is a serious enough institution that can ensure to deliver > binaries of these very popular end user oriented software and can of > course protect the very valuable brand OpenOffice that the ASF now owns > as well...
As has been repeatedly mentioned in this thread and elsewhere, at the moment ASF releases consist of source code, not binaries. OTOH I don't think anybody said the ASF will never allow projects to distribute binaries - but people who want to do that need to get together (*) and come up with a proposal that's compatible with the ASF's goals and constraints, so that a clear policy can be set. A related discussion is ongoing on infra-dev [1] about signing artifacts, where we also have suggested that people get together and express their requirements in a constructive way instead of complaining. -Bertrand (*) Earlier in this thread, I have suggested using legal-discuss + LEGAL jira issues to manage this cross-project discussion. The pmcs@ alias + this list can be used to invite all projects and podlings to join such a discussion. [1] http://s.apache.org/signing_reqs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
