Point of reference: the subversion project used non-ASF infrastructure to conduct releases that would've been blocked by ASF policy on licensing
had they used our mirror system. It is certainly possible to do the same sort of thing with ooo for an interim solution, until the codebase has been "cleaned up" to meet with ASF policy. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Eike Rathke <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, July 4, 2011 9:06:52 AM > Subject: Re: Releasing OOo 3.4 on the old infrastructure > > Hi Andrea, > > On Sunday, 2011-07-03 18:27:09 +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > 2) OpenOffice.org 3.4 is mostly ready. I built the latest code from hg > > a couple weeks ago and I've regularly used it so far. The quality is > > good and there is no risk of damaging the OOo reputation. All > > release stoppers are bugs that will have to be fixed anyway, and > > fixing them later will require the same amount of time. > > There are a couple of CWSs targeted to OOo3.4 that address release > critical bugs and are not integrated to the OOO340 code line yet. Many > of them have status nominated, some not. A release should include them, > problem is that on the old OOo infrastructure work can't happen as > > a) we don't know if that infrastructure will be available sufficiently > long enough for all release relevant work > > b) releases with the OpenOffice.org brand name will be bound to the > trademark and can only be done by the trademark owner, IMHO (IANAL) > > On the other hand, a release can't be done quickly on Apache, be it for > the incubator status of this project or merely because of technical > reasons that we won't get a releasable status of the code base in time > as we won't have the original OOO340 code base under ASL. > > I would be delighted if someone pointed out a way we could solve that > dilemma, but I fear we're stuck at the moment. > > Eike > > -- > PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. > Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD >
