On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > Sent from my tablet > On Oct 7, 2012 10:08 PM, "Benson Margulies" <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So, I voted for the release without making a detailed IP check (just >> signatures, buildability, etc) based on the state in the clutch. > > That's pretty worrying. A vote for a release is a verification that it is a > legally defensible release. No-one should get voting without doing a full > review.
Ross, please clarify your view. If you think that every voter on every release at Apache is checking every single file for a correct header, then I think that there's a significant gap between theory and practice. If you are focussed in incubator issues, read on. In fact, it *is* a legally defensible release, unless the clutch is lying about IP clearance. Some missing or malformed headers do not make it legally defective, just not up to our usual standards. I did check the critical characteristics that make up a legally defensible release. What I want to know about this is whether incubator.apache.org/clutch is lying to me when it claims that this project has released before. I also think that we might have an incubator-specific issue here. When I participate in the PMC of running project, I depend on the PMC to verify headers and such either (a) at checkin, or (b) with rat. I do not think it's a great idea to leave that for release voting. However, I shouldn't be depending on podling members to know enough to do this, and apparently I can't depend on mentors. So perhaps the IPMC needs to take a more mandatory view of RAT. > > Ross > >> >> We seem to have a problem here. I've pinged two of the mentors here >> chosen by people in my gmail 'to' cache; could we get some input? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
