Hello NetBeans fans! Here is a few more details on top of Geertjan's report:
On pátek 23. prosince 2016 15:27:37 CET Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > Hi all, > > We've identified the following repos as being the repos we want to donate > to Apache: > > community-ruby (2376 files) > community-soa (11770 files files) > community-uml (6365 files) > community-visualweb (6339 files) > community-xml (2326 files) > html4j (280 files) > jackpot30 (964 files) > (main)contrib > (main)misc (5076 files) > plsql-support (2341 files) > releases (100548 files) > releases-l10n (33348 files) If you look at repositories listed at http://hg.netbeans.org you may find "donation_review" branches in some of them. > However, we can't contribute something we haven't reviewed. We can only > give to Apache what is ours to give. We can't make licensing decisions for > someone else's code. E.g., we can't donate Oracle logos, for example. And > there are several other logos too. We can't donate all kinds of things if > they're not actually ours to donate. The idea is to cleanup the code and put the fixes into the donation_review branch that should then contain files officially donate-able by Oracle to Apache (insert all the legal warnings describing everything that can go wrong here). > Starting from the smallest repo, i.e., 'html4j', the repos are being > reviewed. That particular repo took less than a day to review, yes, someone > is going through the repo paintakingly looking at files for licensing > concerns and anything else that could be odd for whatever reason. And then > the concerns discovered need to be discussed and handled. Good news is that in case of html4j repository I received the review comments and addressed them as well as I could. Today I've merged the fixes into the donation_review branch: https://hg.netbeans.org/html4j/rev/929563230c07 I have good feelings about the review process. The review identified things that really cannot be donated (knockout.js or safari_logo.png files being two examples). I have managed to address these issues and still keep the code buildable and functional. > Yes, this is taking time -- still, once done we'll know for sure that > things are good and ready. The html4j repository is just a single step, but it seems to indicate that we are moving in the right direction. -jt > Yes, this is taking time -- still, once done we'll know for sure that > things are good and ready. We're doing something right now that I had > thought we'd be doing throughout incubation in the Apache Git repo. Instead > of that, we're doing it before getting it into the Apache Git repo. This is > something that Oracle wants and must do, itself, i.e., no one else, outside > Oracle, should be involved in this since it is Oracle that is donating the > code and not anyone else. > > Hard to give a time estimate for the above, though I imagine some weeks at > least are involved. > > We're moving along and there is progress and the end is clear. In the end > this will have been a good process for its thoroughness and for having > avoided situations with unknown unknowns, since everything will ultimately > come to light as this investigation continues. > > Gj
