Hello everyone, First, I'd like to thank Vinish for driving our first release as an ASF project, which is often the most challenging one.
Unfortunately, during the recent release vote on the incubator mailing list, licensing issues in the xtable-utilities module were found [1]. Honestly, I did not check licensing that carefully in our first release because I assumed the WIP disclaimer [2] would allow us more flexibility to address these issues in future releases. However, it appears that was not the case, as discussed in the mailing list. We need to address these licensing concerns for the xtable-utilities artifact for our release, but this requires considerable effort; Vinish has outlined the plan in this GitHub issue [3]. One suggestion provided in the thread was to exclude the xtable-utilities bundle, at least from the initial releases, to simplify the process. I'm +1 on excluding it from the first releases, but I would also like to discuss more broadly whether we should consider including it in future releases in its current form or whether we should explore other options. The bundle is quite large (over 600MB) and includes many artifacts, which means that any changes in dependency versions in the future will require close monitoring for licensing issues. I'd appreciate input from others, especially if they have experience in similar situations, on how they think we should proceed. Thanks, Jesús [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/pcs3c7dq6bljzxmwlcyrwns9ndbfd23g [2] https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/blob/main/DISCLAIMER-WIP [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/536
