On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> wrote: > Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >> Thanks, Bernd, >> >> I've been reading the thread on "the no releases policy" with >> interest. According to this thread, anything I intend to do would be >> fine, in particular the publication of jar files to the Maven >> repositories. >> >> OTOH, it is interesting to read that Paul Querna (who participated in >> the thread) called for a vote on the Orthrus lab just some days later >> with the expressed intension to publish releases and the reason that >> he was unable of doing so in a lab. That's a little bit of a >> contradiction, is it not? > > I agree that we have no consensus regarding this topic. > Partly, due to the fact that the "release" is an overloaded term. > Yet, I have a pretty clear opinion about it.
Seems to me your opinion is more than an opinion. Any rules we have implicitly only govern an *Apache* Release[1]. Branding concerns aside, the license (and your ownership in this case) allows for whatever "Jochen release" you'd like to do - on your own infrastructure. Plenty of commercial companies are doing their own "releases" from our svn. --tim [1] - http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
