Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-18 Thread Kalle Korhonen
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Luke Han luke...@gmail.com wrote: There's one discussion in Kylin community about to add binary package in release, people are really would like to have one:

RE: apache binary distributions

2015-08-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Marvin's comprehensive response is very helpful. However, the first described case is about a third-party distribution of binaries, even though some or all of the third parties are participants on the project. (I assume the executable was not produced by the project in a manner that

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 18 August 2015 at 18:35, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Marvin's comprehensive response is very helpful. However, the first described case is about a third-party distribution of binaries, even though some or all of the third parties are participants on the project. (I

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-18 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: Well, if Debian can publish their built Apache Maven as maven and SteveNick can't publish their built Apache Maven as maven, then the inescapable question is; On what non-arbitrary grounds is one acceptable and the

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-18 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: However, if SteveNick are Apache project contributors publishing unreleased code and making an end run around Apache release policy, there's greater cause for concern. On the other hand, if SteveNick are

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-18 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Kalle Korhonen So what if a project (members) does not vote but unofficially releases binary executable packages, perhaps along with source to some other location than /dist/? Clearly, it's not an official release by Apache policy but there the bits are in the