Hi, > The Incubator itself is a PMC.
OK that's sorted. > Now let's talk about podling releases... When the IPMC votes on accepting a > podling release, and it passes, my opinion is that the Incubator takes on the > resultant legal obligations associated w/ any PMC doing a release. Now the > podling releases themselves are noted and described as "not GA" and "not > official", et.al. but this is, again IMO, simply to make it clear to anyone > who is downloading and using the software that the expectations normally > associated with "regular" Apache releases do not apply, such that there could > be some licensing issues, etc, that would be verboten in "official" releases, > but may exist here. In other words: this is a podling release; expect issues > and mistakes and churn. Except it's not, as it seems the IPMC doesn’t need to abide by what other PMCs need to abide by when making releases :-) (Which is ironic given the IPMC is tasked with teaching and passing that knowledge on.) And that policy exception is not documented anywhere. :-) Nor has the board, to my knowledge, approved such an exception. Yay! So how is a voted on PMC release, an act which make it official, is not an official release? Do you see how this might be confusing or open to a board range of interpretations? Thanks, Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
