On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 ?
Those passages would be moved, intact, to a new home at release-java.html, which would be prominently linked as you suggest below. Once all technology-specific materials are separated out, it will be simpler to consolidate, polish and edit the universally applicable material which remains in releasemanagement.html. >> 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. +1, sounds good. If no one objects in the next couple days, I'll assume lazy consensus and move forward. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
