(Sorry for top posting.. for now it's just more practical.) Perhaps some of the migration stuff can be done in the older OOo site? - replacing the GNU iconv header is trivial. - ICU needs to be updated to 4.8 before working on the regex replacement.
This depends on people with commit privileges there, of course. Pedro. --- On Tue, 6/28/11, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Hi Mathias, > > I don't know whether my approach is feasible either. > I know we can > set properties on files in SVN. You can retrieve them > individually, > but I don't see a way to query them, e.g., list all files > that don't > have a license property, or download all files that have a > license > property set to Apache 2.0. > > So fa, I think that you've been doing most of the code > investigations. > So I'd trust your judgement on what the next steps should > be. Do you > have any thoughts what work remains for the next 1 or 2 > weeks? For > example, is Oracle currently reviewing the additional SGA > requesets? > Or do we need to request this still? > > If I understand the rules at Apache (and it is certainly > possible I > have this wrong, but in that case Im sure someone will > quickly correct > me), a Podling can check in all of the code, including > parts that are > LGPL/GPL. We can make builds from that. But we are > not permitted to > make a releases or to graduate from a podling until we have > gone > through the IP checklist, including dealing with code that > has an > incompatible license. > > Of course, if you think you are close to having a "clean" > version of > OOo ready to check in, then I don't want to interrupt the > fine work > that you are already doing. But in that case I think > it would help if > we had a "roadmap" for the next couple of weeks, of what > tasks > remains, so others can help as well. > > -Rob > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 27.06.2011 22:06, Rob Weir wrote: > >> > >> I think one approach would be to start with > everything, which should > >> presumably build, and then subtract. So check in > everything from OOo > >> into SVN, verify that it builds. That > establishes a known state. > >> Then verify the IP. Maybe use SVN properties to > tag the files that > >> were covered by Oracle's SGA. Anything not > tagged needs to be > >> investigated. Some things lead to requests for > amending the Oracle > >> SGA. When we get those, we indicate so in an SVN > property. Some > >> things will be GPL/LPGL. These get also get > tagged with properties > >> before being deleted. We continue to iterate > until all files > >> remaining in the repository have a property > indicating that we've > >> proven their provenance. Ideally, as things are > removed, we do so in a > >> way that we can always still build. So we start > in a well-defined > >> state and stay in a well-defined state. > > > > I can't judge whether this approach is feasible. If it > is, I can provide > > information about IP from a developers POV. The files > that definitely are > > not owned by Oracle are already listed in the OOo > wiki. I tend to assume > > that all other files are under Oracle's copyright > until stated otherwise. > > But again, I can't judge whether we can go this way. > > > > Regards, > > Mathias > > > > Rr
