Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
If the entire code base is not inside Apache CVS/SVN then how this qualify for a project after all?
Then we need to kick out *a lot* of our top level projects.
Can you give an example?
http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/gump_xref/repo_module.html
look at how many projects ASF code depends on that are not part of apache.
I always thought that ASF projects are independent from third-party.
oh, no, it's never been the case in the java world.
At least the board has been advertising that for ages :),
when? how?
and each ASF hosted project needs to comply to that basic rule.
yes, but lacking dependence on external project is not such a rule, it would be a foolish to do so.
-- Stefano.