On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote:
> Greets, > > The ASF is technology-neutral: > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator > > It must be noted that the incubator (just like the board) does not > perform > filtering on the basis of technical issues. This is because the > foundation > respects and suggests variety of technical approaches. > > However, the Incubator's primary release documentation page, > <http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html>, is rife with > technology-specific detail. > > The Incubator has plenty of universal concerns regarding release signing, > license headers, distribution, and so on -- which together are more than > enough to cover in one document. Adding content specific to N individual > programming languages or M downstream distribution channels on a single > shared > page does not scale. > Are you suggesting to remove things specific to java/jar packaging and/or distributions specific things like maven details ? > > I propose that releasemanagement.html be reserved for information which is > common to all podlings. > > Concretely, I suggest that we establish new pages to offload > technology-specific passages from releasemanagement.html, starting with > programming-language-specific pages as needed at > <http://incubator.apache.org/release-{LANG_NAME}.html>. The URL is an > implementation detail, but IMO it is important that we maintain dedicated > outlets for technology-specific contributions, as otherwise our primary > page > will quickly return to its current unmanageable size. > > I believe some of these info is important, and we should at least have a direct link to the extra pages that you are proposing, otherwise new podlings might just forget about those pieces. > Marvin Humphrey > > -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
