On 28 November 2011 21:17, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Neha Narkhede wrote: > >> Thanks for the feedback, I still have some questions. >> >> 1. Alan, this nunit license acknowledgement is missing from the NOTICE file >> since RC1 and RC1 had the nunit files. Since cutting RCs is a significant >> time investment, we'd appreciate if you could list all the concerns you >> have once. > > I do not hold back my concerns hand them out in piecemeal fashion. I > overlooked the DLL in earlier release candidate reviews; I made a mistake. :) > >> 2. Sebb, if you have feedback on what should be removed from the file, we'd >> appreciate the exact list of items that are OK to be removed from the >> NOTICE. It is still unclear to us on what should and should not be included. > > I think that Sebb has made some good suggestions. It is not a requirement > that the NOTICE file be minimal. Let's worry about this for the 0.7.x or > 0.8.0 release.
I was told a long time ago that it was important that the NOTICE file only include items that apply. IIRC, the reasoning I was given was that the NOTICE file imposes requirements on downstream users. I don't unfortunately have the reference to hand. [At the time I was just starting to create a release and did not realise there was so much that was undocumented or partially documented] >> 3. Ant, thanks for the suggestion earlier. We'd like this discussion to >> conclude with the exact contents of the LICENSE and NOTICE files. >> >> Better yet, can all these Apache nitty gritty items be listed on some wiki >> that the incubator RMs can follow and depend on ? >> >> I understand that the incubator process depends on the mentors to give such >> feedback, but clearly that is insufficient. > > IIUC, all that really needs to be done is to add NUnit to the NOTICE and > LICENSE files. > > We can perform all the other suggestions in a subsequent release. I invite > those who are interested to join the kafka project at kafka-dev and submit > patches. :) That's where I'm not sure. > > Regards, > Alan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
