On 17/03/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But times change. Apparently now people think that since the Incubator PMC has binding votes on podling releases, then these things *are* indeed official releases, providing both the usual legal protections to PMC members who voted for it, and assurance to downstream users that things like code provenance have already been vetted.
Well, what is the IPMC checking for, if not the above?
If we buy into this philosophy, then a restriction on publishing artifacts to p.a.o/dist and the mirrors, and having a separate incubator repository for them, are ridiculous and should be removed.
Which appears to me to be the point of the discussion & vote...
My grumpiness is over the fact that *only* removing these two restrictions only goes half way. If podlings can create official ASF releases, then they should also not be subject to any restrictions like "-incubating" in artifact names or version numbers. They are either official releases or not. They can be relied upon by downstream users or they cannot. If we're going to go this direction, go *all* the way, and erase any distinction between a podling release and a TLP release, since we would be claiming that there is no legal difference between them, nor any potential concern for downstream users about code provenance. Anything in between (such as only doing what the vote proposes) leaves us sending totally confusing mixed messages.
Well, I'm not sure that the current situation isn't itself "sending totally confusing mixed messages", but I'd have thought that one-step at a time is enough! /Gwyn -- Download Wicket 1.2.5 now! - http://wicketframework.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
