Hi Adam,

Thanks for the explanation.
Can we add some description about it on the board report?
I just went through all the prior board reports[1] I didn't found anything
about it.

[1]https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Weex



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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Adam Feng <cxfe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm  Adam,  who is a committer of Weex,maybe I can clarify the confusion
> of Weex's release process.
>
> Actually,  Weex released its first version in Apache on 2017-06-08,  after
> that, we faced some license problems. Facebook's BSD+Patents license was
> added to Category X[1] and Weex had some dependencies which were using that
> license,  including our layout engine Yoga[2] (though its newest version
> has changed to MIT).
>
> Some committers found the issue[3] and started working on a new layout
> engine, it was a massive work and took more time than we expected,
> fortunately it was nearly done. Weex will release next version in May.
>
> During that time, the community building and development should be
> continued,  so we added some tags and some "feature notes" to the
> community, we will make sure they are clearly labeled as non-Apache
> releases.
>
> Sorry to make you confused.
>
> [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
> [2] https://github.com/facebook/yoga/tree/master
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/WEEX/issues/
> WEEX-69?filter=allopenissues
>
>
> Thanks.
> Adam Feng
>
> On 24 Apr 2018, 7:37 PM +0800, 吴晟 Sheng Wu <wu.sh...@foxmail.com>, wrote:
> > Hi, Bertrand
> >
> >
> > Point taken, Thanks for help.
> >
> >
> > Sheng Wu
> >
> >
> >
> > ---Original---
> > From: "Bertrand Delacretaz"<bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch
> > Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2018 19:26 PM
> > To: "Incubator General"<general@incubator.apache.org>;
> > Subject: Re: Is an incubating project allowed to release if it
> didn'tfollowApache way.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:11 PM, 吴晟 Sheng Wu <wu.sh...@foxmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > ...SkyWalking didnot face this situation...
> >
> > Ah yes got it now, sorry - so what I meant is that the podlings who
> > are doing such releases should clarify that with their mentors.
> >
> > I understand (now ;-) SkyWalking is not in this situation. If a
> > podling doesn't have specific, documented reasons to do non-Apache
> > releases they should not do that.
> >
> > -Bertrand
> >
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