On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:43 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thorsten and Robert explained the situation to me during the BOF >> yesterday, and I hope I have it right. Sorry I haven't followed it >> that closely before. >> >> Is it true that the jar on ibiblio has never been an official >> release? > > No, it was not a release. It's a snapshot from about 12 months after > 1.0 was released. > >> If so, there is no point in renaming it, remove it. > > If it had been up for just a week or so, I would agree. However it's > been available for well over a year. That means there is a whole lot > of code out there that may have been built against it, run through > the corporate QA procedure then shipped as an official product to > customers. Deleting all trace of it could make thinks awkward for > people....
Simon, I do understand all that. But legally we only have two options. Make it an official release by following our own procedures, which does require to make it ASL 2.0 - or remove it. There is no other option. > Person A builds some code depending on 1.0. They strike a bug, and > ask person B to look into it. If A uses the jar from the local repo, nothing we do on the server is going to change that. If we rename the jar, person A will still use the bad version named 1.0 from the local repo. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
