On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Matthieu Riou <matthieu.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > "Do not include any links on the project website that might encourage > >> > non-developers to download and use nightly builds, snapshots, release > >> > candidates, or any other similar package. The only people who are > >> > supposed to know about such packages are the people following the dev > >> > list (or searching its archives) and thus aware of the conditions > >> > placed on the package. If you find that the general public are > >> > downloading such test packages, then remove them. > > >> This really seems like an area that projects should be able to set > >> their own policy guided by common sense. > > > Fuck no :) None of us are lawyers, yet releasing is unfortunately a step > in > > that land. Releasing open source is even more touchy. Believe it or not, > > there are companies that employ lawyers to check releases licensing > before > > adopting one. Even Eclipse does that. So releases are really an area > where > > you want to have very tight common policies, the last thing the ASF wants > is > > an official, ASF-endorsed release continaing some GPL code or code copy / > > pasted from proprietary software by a careless contributor. > > That is all very well and good but that doesn't explain what the > problem is with saying "here's where to find the bleeding edge." A > nightly build is inherently not an official, endorsed release. > Oh there's no problem with that (did someone say differently?), the only disagreement was about the "here" (preferably not under the project URL). Speaking of which: http://ci.apache.org/ Matthieu > > -Jonathan >
