On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Jordan Zimmerman < jor...@jordanzimmerman.com> wrote:
> I understand - I'll add it. It's just that the arbitrariness of Apache > drives me crazy. People don't want to get involved with Apache precisely > because of its being so pedantic and bureaucratic. This is a perfect > example. The list of project members belongs in the pom. A pointer to the > result of that pom is the most reasonable thing to do. As all programmers > know, data should live in one location only. Because of this arbitrary > rule, this data now has to be maintained in two places. It's dumb. This > particular example is small but there are countless similar rules in Apache. > > The thing is that, the project status page will reflect the podling status during incubation. If you point to the website, then in a month or two after graduation, the data will be changed as the TLP continues to grow. As for the rules, come on, it's a very, very, very small price to pay, and when you get used to it, they just happen automatically. And, also, most of them are there for a reason that with time here you will start to get more familiar with. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
