Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
"Before casting +1 binding votes, individuals are REQUIRED to download all signed source code packages onto their own hardware, verify that they meet all requirements of ASF policy on releases as described below, validate all cryptographic signatures, compile as provided, and test the result on their own platform."This is not new.
Yes, this is not new. This has always been the rule. No risks here. Well, a PMC member could prefer to just take a quick look, for compliance, at the source package and then use one of the binary packages for the acceptance test. But, given that there are enough PMC members who go through the expected process, it is still valuable to get feedback from other people who only tried binary builds.
As you noted, the importance of binary builds for OpenOffice is totally different than for other Apache projects, so we respect the generic rules but we also want binary builds to be evaluated; and if someone can only test binary builds, this is still very useful.
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