Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-14 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: We should probably be clear about *who* can relax the rules, because again this could become a fighting ground amongst 180 of us. Perhaps we can avert potential disputes by blocking graduation rather than releases. Every

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-12 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: For a release tagged with the incubating label and disclaimer, filing bugs rather than blocking seems reasonable. I may have edited away more than you like but yes - filing bugs rather than blocking is the approach

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-12 Thread Upayavira
This has a good feel about it. Clearer, with flexibility. We should probably be clear about *who* can relax the rules, because again this could become a fighting ground amongst 180 of us. As to putting the foundation at risk - breaching someone else's copyright does that. Breaching the

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-12 Thread Alex Harui
On 12/11/13 9:51 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: I'm curious what others think. There's room for us to disagree, since release votes do not require consensus... That's the part I've found curious. There's no whistleblower provision for someone who thinks they see something

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-12 Thread Doug Cutting
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: There's no whistleblower provision for someone who thinks they see something that puts the foundation at risk from stopping those to don't see it. If there's a clear legal problem with a release candidate I'd expect others

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-12 Thread Ted Dunning
A point which is often missed by new comers is that votes aren't final until they vote closes and is tallied. That allows a vote that uncovers a serious defect to trigger a bunch of defecting votes (if the vote isn't just canceled) On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Doug Cutting

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-11 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:50 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: And the Incubator _is_ different and does have different policy and rules, hence on occasion podlings being permitted to do releases which include GPL dependencies while Incubating and just fixing those up as a graduation

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-10 Thread Benson Margulies
Therefore, when we say that incubating releases can have small IP loose ends, we mean: * This is an official release, created by an act of the Foundation. * It is known to violate policy. * It could be removed, but no one has done so yet. I'm comfortable with relying on

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-10 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: If we deleted every release from the main Foundation distro area that had some divergence from some policy, no matter how tiny, my suspicion is that the distro area would become rather sparse. Yes quite. And

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-10 Thread David Crossley
ant elder wrote: Benson Margulies wrote: If we deleted every release from the main Foundation distro area that had some divergence from some policy, no matter how tiny, my suspicion is that the distro area would become rather sparse. Yes quite. And lets not forget how the rules

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-09 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is that incubating releases can have small IP loose ends, but not that they can proceed before the main clearance of an initial code donation. It would be good to establish some clarity around this

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-08 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: Greets, I read in the Tajo report and I see on the dev list that the Tajo developers are now diligently tackling IP clearance: http://s.apache.org/00w In my view, IP clearance is only the remain work

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-08 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Bernd Fondermann bernd.fonderm...@gmail.com wrote: That was also my understanding, that IP clearance is important, and neccessary for successful incubation, but incubator releases are orthogonal and therefore carry a disclaimer being not fully vetted Apache

Re: IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-08 Thread Benson Margulies
My understanding is that incubating releases can have small IP loose ends, but not that they can proceed before the main clearance of an initial code donation. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Bernd Fondermann

IP Clearance before releasing

2013-12-07 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Greets, I read in the Tajo report and I see on the dev list that the Tajo developers are now diligently tackling IP clearance: http://s.apache.org/00w In my view, IP clearance is only the remain work for graduation. However, the fact that this is only happening now represents a failure