On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks for the summary Marvin, how about we take the chance to update > our > > policy/documentation to clarify the social norm regarding placement of > > LICENSE/NOTICE in the top level of a distribution but also clarify that, > > any artifact being release by an Apache Project should be reviewed and > > voted, as there were some suggestions on this thread that this was not > the > > case. If we can't clarify that on ASF level, at least we can clarify that > > on the IPMC level. > > I understand the motivation, but I'm actually in favor of keeping the > status > quo. > > As Joe Schaefer pointed out, the VOTE only applies to the canonical source > release. Binary artifacts cannot be official releases of the ASF, and the > IPMC cannot override that policy. > > Is there any written policy that states that ? I have never heard that the ASF can't have binary artifacts as official releases ? Also, from Joe's message, I think he was mentioning what is done in the context of HTTPD, not necessarily stating a policy or the social norm here at Apache. > Additionally, we still have a lot of work to do to squash licensing > documentation bugs in our canonical source releases. When we can't even > get > our official releases right, I don't think it makes sense to dilute our > already thin quality control resources. > > Marvin Humphrey > > The issue I see, particularly when evaluating maven based java source releases (no binaries at all), is that the a lot of the dependencies for a project might be transient making much harder and much more work to evaluate a source only release. While reviewing a binary release, you have listed all the binary dependencies and all it's associated license, making the review process much simpler, allowing the reviewer to concentrate on making sure the dependencies are allowed, no specific jars got unaccounted on the license/notice, etc... [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201309.mbox/%3CBF8E0313-15C2-4375-8470-FE0A1DA917C5%40yahoo.com%3E -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
