On May 17, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> >> I haven't dug into it, but I think the submission may require IP clearance >> through the incubator (http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html). >> The sentence would appear to apply: >>> >>> Any code that was developed outside of the ASF SVN repository and our >>> public mailing lists must be processed like this, even if the external >>> developer is already an ASF committer. > > And the paragraph above that says "From time to time, an external codebase is > brought into the ASF that is not a separate incubating project but still > represents a substantial contribution that was not developed within the ASF's > source control system and on our public mailing lists." > > All code developed at the ASF is developed off-list and then committed so by > the logic of using only the message you quoted almost all code would have to > go through the incubator unless the code was sent to the mailing list first. > Obviously, that makes no sense. Taking that one sentence by itself would > imply that when a new Appender is written and committed to Jira that it would > need to go through the incubator as well. > > I've looked at the template. It is appears to be for code that "lived" > outside of the ASF for some time, either as a separate project or was somehow > visible to other people before being contributed. The code in question is > not an "external codebase" because it was developed solely for the purpose of > being committed to Log4j for experimentation and discussion. Whether it > makes it into something that is ever released is for the community to > determine. > > Ralph >
My take is that there is a poorly defined threshold of off-list-ness at which IP clearance is warranted like there is a threshold at which an ICLA is warranted. An ICLA is always desirable but there is a threshold which the implied grant in the ASL lets you sleep at night. Can bounce it off incubator@ to get a clarification of when it comes into play, but I don't think it is clear that it does not need one. Is there a revision history in a personal SVN, Git, etc? If so, could you dump it and attach it to a bug report? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org
