As usual, I can't speak for anyone else, but... Facebook always has been and likely always will be running off of trunk, so my interest in releases is limited to what's required to make Thrift succeed as an open-source project.
As for RC6, sorry it took me so long to get around to it. I just gave it my +1. --David Todd Lipcon wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> > >
