On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:43 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. > <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: >> Short of people.a.o/~luser/my-patch.tgz, I'm fairly certain that >> can't happen with an incubating podling. Everything under the space >> /dist/ must exist under a PMC. > > I totally agree for proper releases (with a source archive) blessed by > the PMC (on private@ if needed). However, this was neither, so I find > using the same location a bit troublesome. > > Anyway, it sounds like the case was handled reasonably well under some > fairly challenging constraints, so I'm not too worried about details > like this as long as this remains a one-off special case. I only > wanted to bring this up to make sure this doesn't become a standard > procedure without a broader discussion of how cases like this should > be handled. >
If there is anything worth additional consideration, it would be how to handle large incubation projects, where the time to initial Apache release is long enough that there is a possibility or even likelihood of needing to release a security patch for a legacy version of the product. In some cases the original sponsors of the project are still around and can continue to do this kind of maintenance. In other cases, as with OpenOffice, this is not true. I'd recommend that future podlings, and the IPMC, consider this aspect when reviewing new podling applications. It should probably be treated explicitly in the wiki proposal for podlings that expect to take more than 3 or 4 months to get to their first release. Regards, -Rob > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
