GitHub sounds like a good option to me.

Thanks, Ian! Working at Facebook is going great. I'm very happy. Hope you
and Stian are doing well also.

Gale


On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 8:45 AM Ian Dunlop <ianwdun...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I think a "GitHub organisation" seems like a good idea. Staying in Apache
> would obviously be great but the release process seems to keep hitting
> barriers. I would have liked the minimal amount of projects to stay in
> Apache but who could do that. I almost got a release of mobile out and knew
> what to do but in the end couldn't find time plus I wasn't sure if
> releasing code without having a clear purpose or community was a good idea.
> Maybe getting core repos to graduation. Maybe mobile. Move the others to
> github. That could be an idea.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
> Ps nice to hear from you gale. Hope things are going well for you.
>
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, 10:12 Stian Soiland-Reyes, <st...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 05:41:34 -0700, Gale Naylor <
>> ga...@noventussolutions.com> wrote:
>> > Stian, is an "incubator release ... to verify that the Intellectual
>> > Property is clean" the same thing as the "token release" that lets
>> Taverna
>> > graduate?
>>
>> That was not my intention, the release would be all proper, just that
>> its main purpose would be to clear IP rather than provide it to the
>> user.
>>
>> I think one challenge for us is the many git repositories for different
>> modules and we have released them separately, e.g. to correspond with
>> git tags.
>>
>> As some of the modules were not in a mature enough state code-wise or
>> build-wise they have not been released yet. We could do a incubator
>> release of these which would primarily be to ensure their code base has
>> been through the incubator and cleared their IP. Then their code can
>> join us in graduation.
>>
>> Some repos like Taverna Language we have already released, so they are
>> IP clear and have mature code/build systems. If we were to drop the
>> other repositories, with these it is almost trivial to do a release,
>> which we could do as a "token release" to show the IPMC is still working
>> and able to vote on releases.
>>
>>
>> The Taverna Mobile is dfferent - it is mature in a sense both in
>> code and build, and have clean IP as fresh project, but it has a
>> different build system without assisted release. Here I think just
>> manual work (or script) is needed - but it is a bit tedious.
>>
>> So in a sense we have many options, but I would say they all require
>> making and voting on releases.
>>
>>
>>
>>

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