Thanks for doing that so promptly Till. ...ant
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Till Westmann <t...@westmann.org> wrote: > Just for the record: The website is updated (from the branch that will > hopefully be released soon). > > Till > > On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> ant elder wrote: > >>> Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build > >>> instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some > >>> released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't it, i'm pretty sure other > projects > >>> and podlings have done something similar anyway. Is it that the website > >>> describes it as user installation instructions rather than developer > build > >>> instructions thats the issue? > >>> > >>> ...ant > >> > >> I reckon so. To clearly refer developers to developer resources > >> is fine, but users no. They need to be referred to user instructions. > > > > In VXQuery's case, there's nothing to refer users to because in four > years, > > VXQuery has never made an incubating release. > > > > If developer instructions for accessing version control are added to the > > website in accordance with ASF guidelines, of course that's fine -- so > > long as all "user installation" instructions are removed. > > > > Here's more background from the legal-discuss list regarding the current > policy, > > this time from a different Board member, Doug Cutting: > > > > http://markmail.org/message/pelvob23vrzuzws5 > > > > Each PMC should attempt to ensure that every commit is in accord with > > Apache's intellectual property policies. Releases are a double-check > of > > this. We hope that source code repositories are not legally considered > > publications, but we don't know that courts will in fact always treat > them > > that way, so it's best to guard against that too. Note that the extra > > scrutiny around releases both serves to double-check (belt and > suspenders) > > as well as to provide evidence that we do not consider the source code > > repository as a publication. But again, we cannot depend on others to > > agree with that, and must guard against other interpretations as best > we > > can. > > > > If VXQuery finds it uncomfortable not to have anything they can show > users, > > they can solve that by making a release. > > > > Marvin Humphrey > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >
