I agree with you and that's how we've been proceeding. But, what does this mean in the thread pointed out by Emilian:
>By legal, I mean that some files may not contain required headers, or > > part of the code requires refactoring because it belongs to a non active > > developer (code created before the incubation) or the Software Grant > > Agreement is not yet signed for instance. > > I think during the first steps of the project (and so releases), it >> happens. I.e., in the above it is very clear that there are situations where code has been committed prior to a Software Grant being done. Gj On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...the way I read this, it does happen to have whole releases under > > incubation without a Software Grant signed or without a code cleanup... > > I'm not ready to commit code to ASF repositories without that being > backed by a software grant. > > Also, considering that the existing NetBeans repositories need to be > filtered before importing to ASF repositories, having to revert / > cherry-pick files that should never have been imported does not sound > practical to me. > > The best way to fix this is to finally get that grant signed and filed. > > -Bertrand > > P.S. I suggest using a [mentor] subject line tag when people expect > incubation mentors to look at specific threads. >
