This has a good feel about it. Clearer, with flexibility. We should probably be clear about *who* can relax the rules, because again this could become a fighting ground amongst 180 of us.
As to putting the foundation at risk - breaching someone else's copyright does that. Breaching the foundation's policies doesn't. Upayavira On Thu, Dec 12, 2013, at 05:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:50 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > And the Incubator _is_ different and does have different policy and > > rules, hence on occasion podlings being permitted to do releases which > > include GPL dependencies while Incubating and just fixing those up as > > a graduation requirement. > > Over in another thread[1], Bertrand came up with a thoughtful > formulation: > > I have no problem with clear and documented decisions to relax some > of > the release checklist criteria for an incubating release, as long as > that doesn't put the foundation at risk. > > That's more lenient than either my "inconsequential" test or Benson's > "materiality", but it provides something else: a framework inside which > the Incubator may bend the rules. It had been hard for me to understand > how > we could justify exercising discretion about policy, given the > Incubator's > obligations as an ordinary Apache TLP, but perhaps "document how this > problem > doesn't put the Foundation at risk" is something I can get behind. > > I expect that an incubating release with a GPL dependency would have > necessitated the approval of VP Legal Affairs, right? That would fit > inside > Bertrand's framework. > > Similarly, licensing documentation bugs such as extra garbage in NOTICE > or > the occasional missing ALv2 header do not "put the foundation at risk" -- > or > put our downstream users at risk. For a release tagged with the > "incubating" > label and disclaimer, filing bugs rather than blocking seems reasonable. > > I'm curious what others think. There's room for us to disagree, since > release > votes do not require consensus... > > Marvin Humphrey > > [1] http://s.apache.org/r1F > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
