Hi Upayavira, The last RC I saw was 0.3.0rc5, which was +1ed by many members of the Thrift community and then voted down by the IPMC due to some legal issues. Bryan was going to roll a new rc, but I can't seem to find a vote thread for any rc6. As I understood it, we're in a holding pattern waiting for a new rc before voting again -- what am I missing?
-Todd On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Upayavira <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Thrift Community, > > Some time ago, Bryan Duxbury volunteered to be release manager for > Thrift, and has, since then, put a lot of effort into producing > releases, rolling six release candidates, each one closer to meeting the > set of legal requirements desired by the incubator. These requirements > all in place to make it as clear as possible the terms on which end > users can use the software. > > For each RC, he has submitted a vote on thrift-dev, asking for folks to > validate that both the code is good and, to the best of their knowledge, > the release is validly licensed/etc. > > These votes can be taken to show the extent to which the community is > behind a release. By community I am not limiting it to committers - > include anyone actively participating in the development of the code and > community. > > Until yesterday, Bryan's last RC has not had a single response nor vote > in five days. It still only has votes from mentors, and none from the > Thrift community. > > I can only take this as a sign that the Thrift community is either not > behind Bryan's releases, or more likely that the Thrift community is not > behind formally releasing code. > > Without cracking this release issue, Thrift will not leave the incubator > (seeing as *releasing* open source code to the public is what the ASF > exists for), and incubator is not a permanent place for projects. Thrift > needs to be setting its sights on graduating, or on moving elsewhere. > > Am I right in my assumption that the Thrift community is not interested > in releasing code? Is everyone happy just running off trunk? Am I > missing something? Do folks actually want Thrift to release code? Or > should Thrift move somewhere else and just get on with developing the > codebase as it generally does now? > > Upayavira > > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
