On 12/7/06, Simone Gianni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyway, labs lives on SVN, and SVN is a web server, so if a project places a jar in SVN, for example in the context of a local maven repo as in my previous mail, anyone can access it pointing their browsers to the correct url.
Yes, but why would you *want* to do such a thing? The labs are suppose to be a place where Apache committers can collaborate on a codebase before having to worry about attracting a user community. Any Apache committer should be able to checkout the project and build it all from scratch. Personally, I'd amend the subject to "wanting to release considered harmful" since it implies the project is past the lab stage, has attracted users who are not Apache committers, and it is ready for the next step.
From a legal POV, it's a jar anyone can download from the apache servers .. but apache stated in the labs bylaws that labs is not going to release .. so it is not a release, right?
There are a number of ways that a clever lab could skirt the "no releases" provision. When a lab start doing such things, then it might be time for the Labs PMC to consider whether the lab is "completed", and ready to move on. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
