On 05/28/12 15:00, Rob Weir wrote:
... Yes the situation was specifically postponed as a graduation issue, I am not going through that discussion again. I made a concrete proposal with two alternatives: - They are moved to a friendly ftp/http site. - I step down from the PPMC to avoid the community the pain of a -1 vote. Since this is a policy question, I assume a third option would be to clarify the policy? That might make sense as the first step in any case.
We already went through that and it's pretty clear to me. Those Category-B tarballs are there in an attempt to work around the fact that we are only supposed to be using binaries. No other Apache project is carrying sources and patches to MPL'd tarballs in the repositories and, other than the configure option, we are giving them basically the same treatment as Category-A. I won't spend any more energy on the issue but feel free to do all the consultations you want, and don't take the second alternative as a threat. Pedro.
