I believe we evaluate the community, not the code. However, in this case I would like to look at the code to get a feel for whether I would be interested in contributing to the project.
Ross -----Original Message----- From: William A Rowe Jr [mailto:wr...@rowe-clan.net] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 12:33 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Geode Incubation proposal Ross, do we evaluate source code at the incubation-entry level, or do we evaluate proposed development goals and development community propositions? I'm curious about your thoughts. Yours, Bill On Apr 13, 2015 12:16 AM, "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Pivotal are asking me to agree to an "evaluation license" which I > cannot view before I sign up. So I have to review the privacy policy first. > > Pivotal's privacy policy goes a *long* way beyond the point I am > comfortable with when getting open source software (or deciding > whether I want to agree with an evaluation license I can't read). I > guess your defense could be that it's not open source yet, that's > fine, but you are asking me, as an IPMC Member, to make a judgement on > the validity of the proposal but I can't evaluate the code since I > can't access it or the license under which I am allowed to view it. > > Most importantly, the "export and license obligations" you mention are > something that have to go away before we can accept the project (or > more accurately before it can graduate). Since I can't evaluate the > code or the license I have no way of evaluating whether this is > possible. There is no mention of such an item under "known risks" or > the "crypotography" section of the proposal so what's this "export" > stuff about (assuming the license thing is the evaluation license)? > > Given the points above I do not see how I can evaluate this proposal > in its current form. > > Ross > > -----Original Message----- > From: shaposh...@gmail.com [mailto:shaposh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Roman Shaposhnik > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 11:56 PM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Geode Incubation proposal > > Since I'm getting a few off-list questions, I just want to make one > point > clear: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Roman Shaposhnik > <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: > >> I'd also like to be able to review the source referred to in the > >> proposal without having to sign up to "the Pivotal network" - how > >> can > I do that? > > > > The issue here is export and license compliance. Unfortunately, > > singing up is the only way to go right now. Why is it problematic > > for > you? > > The software currently is NOT under ALv2. It is available under the > evaluation license. The whole point of the proposal is to make it > available under ALv2 as an Incubating project. > > Our apologies for making folks click through the evaluation license. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >
