On May 13, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > On 05/13/2011 07:28 PM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: >> If it has a modified version of Hadoop (i.e., not an actual Apache >> release or patches which have never been committed to trunk), are >> they allowed to say "includes Apache Hadoop"? > > No. Those are the two cases we permit. We used to say that it was > enough for a patch to be in Jira, but Roy clarified last year that > committed to trunk is a better line, since that means the code has been > reviewed and accepted by the community.
Committed to a releasable branch, actually. In other words, a branch (including trunk) that the PMC is collaborating on towards release at some point in the future. ....Roy
