On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > We have software grants or recontributions for everything except one > BSD-style item (suggested changes to ExtendedHandler in ARP, 2003, from > PluggedIn Software - BSD is category-A - the licence and copyright is > labelled in the code).
Excellent! > We now need this recorded for: > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/jena.html > > As I understand it the process is: > > 1/ Wrap up the code into a blob we can refer to. > > Can this be a SVN sub-tree and revision? > Or does this have to be a blob in SVN? > I don't see a similar blob for other projects. > > 2/ We have a PPMC VOTE to include at least one mentor. > > 3/ A mentor updates the file that controls: > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/jena.html Hmm, where did you get that understanding? Did someone change the process while I wasn't looking? :-) My understanding is, once we all agree (under lazy consensus rules) that we are in a good state, we simply update the status file (and I'd actually prefer if a non-mentor does that, though if there's access control issues, mweh), and that's it. Then, as part of every commit and every release, we keep applying our careful dance to ensure we keep a clear and clean IP record. The vote that (also) asserts IP clearance is ok is the release vote -- i.e. the release is the action of the PMC that is a committee of the ASF that asserts "this is good for everyone to use (so also IP is clean as far as we know). cheers, Leo
