hey karl,

maybe I misread this but can't your remote link the javadocs or 3rd party libs?

simon

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that would want to be a separate INFRA ticket.  We can't
> really create it until our svn area is moved, and I'm still waiting on
> that.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Alex Ott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Karl
>>
>> Can we create git mirror for manifoldcf (as part of graduating
>> activities)? I'm working on several computers and that would be handy
>> to have "official" git repository instead of maintaining my own via
>> git-svn
>>
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The Apache IT folks have an additional requirement which we will need
>>> to fulfill at some point as part of the graduation process.  It is
>>> apparently a requirement that at least the site be completely
>>> buildable using only materials that we can obtain a zero-cost license
>>> for.  We've been publishing our site including javadoc including the
>>> documentum, filenet, livelink, and meridio connectors, which
>>> technically violates this principle.
>>>
>>> There are two ways to address the problem.  The first way is to check
>>> into trunk somewhere the javadocs, and periodically regenerate/check
>>> in changes.  The second way is to write stubs for all of the
>>> proprietary libraries, and build and javadoc against those stubs
>>> rather than against the actual libraries themselves.
>>>
>>> After thinking about this a while, I concluded that it might be
>>> feasible to create stubs, and there would be additional benefits to
>>> the approach.  Specifically, it would no longer be necessary for our
>>> release engineer to obtain the necessary proprietary materials in
>>> order to produce a release, and that would be a huge benefit in the
>>> long run.  Also, Apache IT communicated that they were concerned that
>>> some of the proprietary materials might have javadoc restrictions such
>>> that we could not legally release javadoc for code that compiled
>>> against these jars.  I do not think this is true but in the interests
>>> of trying to be a good Apache citizen we should eliminate this concern
>>> if it is reasonably possible to do so.
>>>
>>> I've therefore created a ticket, CONNECTORS-474, and a corresponding
>>> branch, and am working away on this.  It will, of course, take some
>>> time.  There will also need to be some testing of the proprietary
>>> connectors needed before the branch is committed, because building
>>> against stubs might inadvertantly introduce linkage errors.  In the
>>> interim I've been assured that the migration to our TLP resources will
>>> continue as planned.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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