I agree on dropping the waiting period. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Kevan Miller <kevan.mil...@gmail.com>wrote:
> All, > Our policy for granting access to the Geronimo TCK test harness is > described here -- > https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxPMGT/geronimo-project-policies.html#GeronimoProjectPolicies-AccesstoTCK > > The policy describes a 72 hour waiting period when granting non-Geronimo > committers read-only access to our TCK test harness. This period was > intended to allow the Geronimo PMC time to provide oversight on these > requests. Presumably, a PMC member could block someone's request (though > this has never occurred and I can't, frankly, imagine a case where we would > block someone's request). If we had our preference, our TCK test harness > would not be in a private svn. It would instead be publicly readable by all. > > I would like to remove the 72 hour waiting period from our policy. If an > ASF committer requests access to our test harness, I believe we should grant > this access immediately. > > The 72 hour waiting period might have been more meaningful when the > Geronimo project maintained and distributed the Sun (now Oracle) TCK. As a > reminder, these materials are obtained via an agreement between the ASF and > Sun/Oracle. To gain access to these materials, an ASF committer must sign an > NDA. We still maintain/distribute the Sun/Oracle TCK for Java EE 5. However, > the JCP project is maintaining the newer TCK materials. The JCP does not > have a waiting period for granting access to the JCP maintained TCK > materials. > > Comments? Objections? If I don't hear any objections, I'll plan on updating > our policy and removing the 72 hour window... > > --kevan -- Vamsi
