Re: Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-11 Thread Ross Gardler
Thanks Greg, I am fully in support of your position here. The ASF is supposed to make it easier for developers to develop. It is not supposed to be creating red tape to guard the entrance to the hallowed halls. Ross From: Greg Stein Sent: Sunday,

Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-11 Thread Greg Stein
See further below for an unfortunately trimmed thread. A couple paragraphs that I wrote early-thread are important to add: Option (F): stop calling them official ASF releases, which means PMC votes are not required. > In that case voting would not be required and they wouldn’t have to

Re: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases

2019-08-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > I see no problem with using our infrastructure to distribute F/OSS > > materials. Why would the Foundation want to be against that? If it is > > labeled properly, then ... roll with it. > > It often isn’t labelled properly.

Re: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases

2019-08-11 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I see no problem with using our infrastructure to distribute F/OSS > materials. Why would the Foundation want to be against that? If it is > labeled properly, then ... roll with it. It often isn’t labelled properly. There’s a reasonable risk that some of what would be placed there and

Re: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases

2019-08-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:29 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote: (dunno why Justin keeps trimming sources for his quotes...) > > Option (F): stop calling them official ASF releases, which means PMC > votes > > are not required. > > In that case voting would not be required and they