No need for VOTE, Martin, just file the ticket, you have an iCLA on file, we trust you to move forward.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> Organization: Geomatys Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Proposed edition of project history >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 >
