Hello all
About the 3 Mb of binary files which were added and removed on the JDK8
branch, I would like to propose the following actions. Of course they
are not critical - it is just "would be nice if we can". Is there any
comment or objection?
1.
"Resurrect" the DEPARTEMENT.* files in the
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sis/data/Shapefiles directory with a
LICENSE file containing the text found by Marc. Since those files
are already in SVN history anyway, they should not cost anything
significant to the server if we use the proper SVN command. Since
the "sis/data" directory is not part of any distribution neither is
mirrored on any Git clone, it would give us time for revisiting
licensing question and how to handle big test files.
2.
Create a clone of the JDK8 branch on GitHub and squash commit
ca14680192 with 57b5204f92. This would hopefully remove reference to
the 3 Mb file.
3.
Open a INFRA issue similar to [1] asking the infra team to make a
"push --force" of the JDK8 branch on
the git://git.apache.org/sis.git repository and its
http://github.com/apache/sis mirror. Since only a branch is affected
(not the trunk or master), this would be hopefully less problematic
regarding the policy of history immutability.
4.
After 3 is resolved, we can do the usual merge of JDK8 with other
branches and trunk/master.
I would volunteer for doing those actions if peoples agree. Since this
touch the project history, do we need a vote after discussion?
Martin
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10731
