On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:17 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> Actually, 5/5 releases were done without the SGA. I'm not too worried > about that for a number of reasons. > The missing SGA was a defect in form, but not in substance. All of the original code came from eBay who had a strong commitment to open sourcing the code as evidenced by their placing the code on github under ALS. > 1. We imported the full history from the original repository, the podling > has built upon that instead of flattening the commit. > ?! How is this a defect? It increases transparency. > 2. The code coming in was already AL v2 compliant, so its really a question > as to whether releases were proper. > Correct modulo the kinds of nits that tend to be surfaced by incubator reviews. > 3. From continuing to look into this, I also noticed we're missing an IP > Clearance for the donation. In addition, there are 31 contributors per > github, but the project proposal includes 8, the current roster shows 13 + > 5 mentors. So there is a potential gap related to IP. > All of the original contributors to the code were employees of eBay and thus, there was no IP problem from then. Later contributors may have been from outside of the committer circles, but all commits were pulled into Apache by a committer. The Apache push logs record exactly who brought the commits into Apache while commits themselves record who actually authored the original code. This is relatively standard for git operations at Apache. > > 4. We've had prior cases where podlings failed to get the SGA done properly > before starting incubation. It happens, and as long as we can find an SGA > indicating the initial import we should be fine We have that. > Sorry, I feel like every time I dig into this I find something new. :/ > I am sorry you get that impression. Other than the SGA (now filed, acknowledged by the project to be late in obsequious subsequent prostrations) and the font license (covered by the acks in the containing package and the overall project acknowledgements and difficult to mark otherwise) what new actual issues have you uncovered? My own opinion is that each of the issue you just mentioned are actually virtues rather than vices.
