[cc'ing incubator-pmc as this is definitely an issue for them instead of just roller-dev]
On 11/4/05, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope/don't think we need a final statement on LGPL policy before we > ship > Roller 1.3 and Roller 2.0. We get can that later, we just need a green > light > to ship an officially unofficial and unendorsed release. I thought we > had that. An 'officially unofficial and unendorsed release' isn't a concept I know of, so this isn't just my being worried about whether we'll get in trouble over the LGPL dependency, I need to figure out how/where you would release such a release. Currently it'd be putting the files in http://people.apache.org/~snoopdave/ and mentioning it on the roller-dev list (but not -user list). Effectively exactly what you've done already except you need to make a public_html directory on people.apache.org to put them in. Once you start announcing things though, it's effectively official. Given that, you might as well just declare a tag in subversion and let the Sun and JRoller admins know to build from that tag (presuming they're the major ones waiting for it). That's a pretty nifty way of getting around the whole problem :) Why even do binary releases, just point to tags in SVN and tell people to check them out. Given that they just want to check out a read-only copy, they don't even need SVN, they can mount the drive over webdav. Install instructions become: Mount http://svn.apache.org/..... (easy on Win/Mac, unsure on Linux) cd into dir run 'build all' Might have to cp -r the mounted directory; unsure if the build all would piss things off royally. Which is one reason why having stuff in CVS/SVN is effectively distributing and just by having the hibernate jar in there we must already have some kind of permission to distribute. Aargh. This stuff messes with your head I swear. > Anyhow, I'm cool with another Java.Net release, I just want to get the > code out to the folks who're waiting for it. Right, my wife wants to get her blog back :) (her 0.9.x one is messed up somehow and I'm waiting on 1.3 to do an upgrade and get it fixed). So I'm definitely motivated for a release. Hen
