Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 10/27/11 8:28 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Thu, 10/27/11, Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: In any case, yes.. I think this is the way to go. I am just hoping there will be a way to opt out those components in favor of the system libraries when those available. me too

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-28 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Fri, 10/28/11, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: snip mental dump 4) I know you want ucpp there too, but since that stuff is used in idlc, I think I'd prefer it in idlc/source/preproc/ as it was before. No idea if we can use the system cpp for the rest but that

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 9/22/11 1:19 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: ok, we have several arguments for and against but no decision how we want to move forward. Let us take again a look on it 1. we have a working mechanism to get the externals from somewhere, check md5 sum, unpack, patch, build 1.1 somewhere is

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
2011/10/27 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: On 9/22/11 1:19 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: ok, we have several arguments for and against but no decision how we want to move forward. Let us take again a look on it 1. we have a working mechanism to get the externals from somewhere, check

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Thu, 10/27/11, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: ... i think we still haven't finished on this topic but it is somewhat important to move forward with our IP clearance and the whole development work. So if nobody has real objections i would like to move forward

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 10/27/11 6:13 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Thu, 10/27/11, Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: ... i think we still haven't finished on this topic but it is somewhat important to move forward with our IP clearance and the whole development work. So if nobody has real

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Thu, 10/27/11, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: In any case, yes.. I think this is the way to go. I am just hoping there will be a way to opt out those components in favor of the system libraries when those available. me too but we should move forward and we

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- On Thu, 10/27/11, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: In any case, yes.. I think this is the way to go. I am just hoping there will be a way to opt out those components in favor of the system

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Matthias; --- On Thu, 10/27/11, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.net wrote: ... In any case, yes.. I think this is the way to go. I am just hoping there will be a way to opt out those I am OK with that, but let me attempt to dump what I think: 1) you are not bringing in

Re: How about a new branch for the legal changes? (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-14 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Fri, 10/14/11, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: ... A branch would save us from having say... 1000 commits with header changes in the history. Apache uses version control as the canonical record. It's therefore essential to know why a header was changed and by whom. And of course

Re: How about a new branch for the legal changes? (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Rist
On 10/14/2011 8:58 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Fri, 10/14/11, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: ... A branch would save us from having say... 1000 commits with header changes in the history. Apache uses version control as the canonical record. It's therefore essential to know why a header was

ICC generated profiles are copylefted (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-14 Thread Pedro Giffuni
. And, yes, it is murky all the way down.  - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 22:32 To: 'ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org' Subject: RE: A systematic approach to IP review? Not to put too fine

Re: How about a new branch for the legal changes? (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hi; Looking at how big, and mostly cosmetic but necessary, a change it will be to bring in all the SGA license changes, and given that it requires manual intervention and is not something that can be done in one huge mega

Re: How about a new branch for the legal changes? (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Thu, 10/13/11, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I recommend separating review from (automated) execution. If this is done, a branch shouldn't be necessary... Uhm.. can you elaborate a bit more? A branch would save us from having say... 1000 commits with header changes in the history.

How about a new branch for the legal changes? (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-09 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; Looking at how big, and mostly cosmetic but necessary, a change it will be to bring in all the SGA license changes, and given that it requires manual intervention and is not something that can be done in one huge mega commit ... I think we should create a branch for this changes in merge

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-10-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 01.10.2011 00:17, schrieb Michael Stahl: On 30.09.2011 21:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Another advantage of unpacking the tarballs: the patches will become *real* patches that just contain changes of the original source code. Often the patches

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; I don't like the patches because I can't really examine well the code, besides this is something the VCS handles acceptably: commit the original sourcecode and then apply the patches in a different commit. If we start with up to date

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Stahl
On 30.09.2011 21:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Another advantage of unpacking the tarballs: the patches will become *real* patches that just contain changes of the original source code. Often the patches nowadays contain additional files that we just

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-29 Thread Rob Weir
: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 22:32 To: 'ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org' Subject: RE: A systematic approach to IP review? Not to put too fine a point on this, but it sounds like you are talking about boilerplate (and authored) template code that Bison incorporates in its output.  It is also

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 20.09.2011 16:36, Pavel Janík wrote: Have we ever considered using version control to...uh...manage file versions? Just an idea. Maybe Heiner will say more, but in the past, we have had the external tarballs in the VCS, but then we moved them out and it worked very well. There never was a

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-28 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
FWIW; I don't like the patches because I can't really examine well the code, besides this is something the VCS handles acceptably: commit the original sourcecode and then apply the patches in a different commit. If we start with up to date versions there would not be much trouble. just my $0.02,

RE: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?] FWIW; I don't like the patches because I can't really examine well the code, besides this is something the VCS handles acceptably: commit the original sourcecode and then apply the patches in a different commit. If we start with up to date

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 19.09.2011 02:27, Rob Weir wrote: 1) We need to get all files needed for the build into SVN. Right now there are some that are copied down from the OpenOffice.org website during the build's bootstrap process. Until we get the files all in one place it is hard to get a comprehensive view

RE: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-28 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
:32 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?] FWIW; I don't like the patches because I can't really examine well the code, besides this is something the VCS handles acceptably: commit

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Stahl
On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; I don't like the patches because I can't really examine well the code, besides this is something the VCS handles acceptably: commit the original sourcecode and then apply the patches in a different commit. If we start with up to date

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
in a tar-ball, etc. In short: nice! - Dennis -Original Message- From: Mathias Bauer [mailto:mathias_ba...@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 04:25 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On 19.09.2011 02:27, Rob Weir wrote: 1) We need

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Rob Weir
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On 19.09.2011 02:27, Rob Weir wrote: 1) We need to get all files needed for the build into SVN.  Right now there are some that are copied down from the OpenOffice.org website during the build's bootstrap process.   Until we get the files

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It is unlikely that machine-generated files of any kind are copyrightable subject matter. I'd imagine that Pixar, for instance, would have a problem with that blanket statement... The very existence of this

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to consider that. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Norbert Thiebaud [mailto:nthieb...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 16:41 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Dennis

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Wed, 9/28/11, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: ... On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: It is unlikely that machine-generated files of any kind are copyrightable subject matter. I'd imagine that Pixar, for instance, would have a problem with that blanket statement...

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-28 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I'll stand by my original statement. I'm not going to get into the Pixar case since it doesn't apply here. I did not say it applied to the Visual studio generated cruft... I merely commented on the blanket

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Jens-Heiner Rechtien jhrecht...@web.dewrote: On 09/20/2011 05:26 PM, Rob Weir wrote: Ai2011/9/20 Pavel Janíkpa...@janik.cz: Have we ever considered using version control to...uh...manage file versions? Just an idea. Maybe Heiner will say more, but in

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Pavel Janík
Proposed way to move forward 1. put the externals under .../trunk/ext_sources .../trunk/ext_sources .../trunk/main .../trunk/extras 2. adapt configure to use this as default, disable the download (maybe reactivate it later if we move to a DSCM) 3. keep the process with checking the md5

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Armin Le Grand
On 22.09.2011 13:19, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Jens-Heiner Rechtienjhrecht...@web.dewrote: On 09/20/2011 05:26 PM, Rob Weir wrote: ... Placing all the external tarballs in the VCS is a real killer if using a distributed SCM like git or Mercurial, thats why we

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
2011/9/22 Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz Proposed way to move forward 1. put the externals under .../trunk/ext_sources .../trunk/ext_sources .../trunk/main .../trunk/extras 2. adapt configure to use this as default, disable the download (maybe reactivate it later if we move to a DSCM)

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Pavel Janík
don't know if it is what you are looking for but wget http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/ filename?view=co should download the head version. Then we should be able to have both things solved - files in SVN and with a relatively small change in the download script also

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Rob Weir
2011/9/22 Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz: Proposed way to move forward 1. put the externals under .../trunk/ext_sources .../trunk/ext_sources .../trunk/main .../trunk/extras 2. adapt configure to use this as default, disable the download (maybe reactivate it later if we move to a DSCM) 3.

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was thinking something similar. We only need to use the SVN interface to the files when we're adding or updating. But we can have bootstrap continue to download via http. The location, using Juergen's proposed location,

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
2011/9/22 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was thinking something similar. We only need to use the SVN interface to the files when we're adding or updating. But we can have bootstrap continue to download via

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Rob Weir
2011/9/22 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: 2011/9/22 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was thinking something similar.  We only need to use the SVN interface to the files when we're adding or updating.  

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Shao Zhi Zhao
hi, Based on this result, an other trunk will be like the following if IBM symphony checked in: /ooo/symphony-src/trunk/main /ooo/symphony-src/trunk/extras /ooo/symphony-src/tags /ooo/symphony-src/branches thus it introduces a problem: How to merge the two trunks of symphony-src and ooo-src?

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is possible that we have this wrong. Adding in site/ and ooo-site/ brings in a different convention. They have are set up to have trunk/tags/branches underneath them. That is fine, because the website does not release

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Rob Weir
to ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org To ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org, cc Subject Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?] 2011/9/22 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: 2011/9/22 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com

RE: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Thursday, September 22, 2011 05:24 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?] 2011/9/22 Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz: Proposed way to move forward 1. put the externals under .../trunk/ext_sources

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-21 Thread Jens-Heiner Rechtien
On 09/20/2011 05:26 PM, Rob Weir wrote: Ai2011/9/20 Pavel Janíkpa...@janik.cz: Have we ever considered using version control to...uh...manage file versions? Just an idea. Maybe Heiner will say more, but in the past, we have had the external tarballs in the VCS, but then we moved them out

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-20 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 04:47 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM,

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-20 Thread Shane Curcuru
So... has anyone actually run Apache RAT yet? It has a scan only mode which I'd think would be the simplest place to start. Personally, I'd recommend working on basic RAT scans, with the scripts to run them and any exception rules (for known files, etc.) all checked into SVN with the build

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-20 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth a few minutes of your time to review our

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-20 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: So... has anyone actually run Apache RAT yet? It has a scan only mode which I'd think would be the simplest place to start. it's on my todo list to take a look on it, probably i will come back with questions Juergen

handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 20.09.2011 14:37, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: ... Suggestions: 1) We need to get all files needed

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Pavel Janík
Hi, I like this idea. From a developer point of view I only have to checkout ext_sources once and reference it from all my trunks using the already existing configure-switch 'with-external-tar=path to ext_sources' when we will have such repository, we will surely modify the current

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: On 20.09.2011 15:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 20.09.2011 14:37, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: ... What do others think about a structure where we have ext_sources besides trunk. incubator/ooo/trunk

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Pavel Janík
Would we be able to do this? What if the flaw was related to code in ext_sources? Then we patch it. Patch will be in the trunk/main, as always. And if not us, in the project, what if some downstream consumer of AOOo 3.4.0 wants to rebuild 3.4.0 later, for a patch or whatever. But we've

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Armin Le Grand
On 20.09.2011 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Armin Le Grandarmin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: On 20.09.2011 15:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 20.09.2011 14:37, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: ... What do others think about a structure where we have ext_sources besides

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Pedro Giffuni
+1 - This will make it easier to update the BSD/MIT unrestricted stuff. - Hopefully it also means we will eventually stop depending on GNU patch for the build. Welcome Oliver! Great job Juergen: it's the first code replacement and a very necessary one for OO forks too (unless they want to

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Pavel Janík
Have we ever considered using version control to...uh...manage file versions? Just an idea. Maybe Heiner will say more, but in the past, we have had the external tarballs in the VCS, but then we moved them out and it worked very well. There never was a reason to track external.tar.gz files

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-20 Thread Rob Weir
Ai2011/9/20 Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz: Have we ever considered using version control to...uh...manage file versions? Just an idea. Maybe Heiner will say more, but in the past, we have had the external tarballs in the VCS, but then we moved them out and it worked very well. There never

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-20 Thread Rob Weir
2011/9/20 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: So... has anyone actually run Apache RAT yet?  It has a scan only mode which I'd think would be the simplest place to start. it's on my todo list to take a look on

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Pedro Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: Hi; Is there an updated SGA already? good question and where can we find it? Juergen I think there will likely be a set of files of uncertain license that we should move to apache-extras. I am refering

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth a few minutes of your time to review our incubation status page, especially the items under Copyright and Verify Distribution Rights. It lists the things we need to do,

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Pedro Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: Hi; Is there an updated SGA already? Not that I know of. But we can and should go ahead with IP clearance using the SGA we already have. In fact, starting that process will help us identify exactly which files

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth a few minutes of your time to review our incubation status page, especially the items under Copyright and Verify

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth a few minutes of your time to review our incubation status page, especially

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org  wrote: If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Mon, 9/19/11, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: ... 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: ... do you mean to check in the files under ext_source into svn and remove it later on when we have cleaned up the code. Or do you mean to put it somehwere on apache

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 07:47 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 01:45 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: [ ... ] 7) Goal should be for anyone today to be able to see what

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/19/2011 04:47 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.orgwrote: If you

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 04:47 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de  wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Marcus (OOo)
with every release. I invite you to investigate what other projects do. When you do I think you will agree. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 07:47 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/19/2011 07:05 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 04:47 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de  wrote: Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidtjogischm...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org  wrote: If you

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I agree running rat is important ... I haven't heard any suggestion that such an important tool not be used. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 10:05 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? Am 09/19/2011 07:05 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: [ ... ] 3) Running RAT against the source is how we ensure that the code is clean OK, I don't know what this can do your us. Maybe it's the solution for the problem. How do

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Re: A systematic approach to IP review? [ ... ] The granularity we need to worry about is the file. That is the finest grain level of having a license header. That is the unit of tracking in SVN. That is the unit that someone could have changed the content in SVN. Again, it is fine

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I agree that there is no escape from managing down to the individual file.   It is a question of organization now, where the entire base is involved. RAT or something RAT-like. Later, if the svn:property is to

RE: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 17:27 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: A systematic approach to IP review? If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth a few minutes of your time to review our

Re: A systematic approach to IP review?

2011-09-18 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; Is there an updated SGA already? I think there will likely be a set of files of uncertain license that we should move to apache-extras. I am refering specifically to the dictionaries: Oracle might have property over some but not all. I propose we rescue myspell in apache-extras and put the