Ah, sorry, I found the thread now - it somehow got filtered to the wrong gmail label over here. Apologies for the noise.
-Todd On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi Upayavira, > > The last RC I saw was 0.3.0rc5, which was +1ed by many members of the > Thrift community and then voted down by the IPMC due to some legal issues. > Bryan was going to roll a new rc, but I can't seem to find a vote thread for > any rc6. As I understood it, we're in a holding pattern waiting for a new rc > before voting again -- what am I missing? > > -Todd > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > >> Dear Thrift Community, >> >> Some time ago, Bryan Duxbury volunteered to be release manager for >> Thrift, and has, since then, put a lot of effort into producing >> releases, rolling six release candidates, each one closer to meeting the >> set of legal requirements desired by the incubator. These requirements >> all in place to make it as clear as possible the terms on which end >> users can use the software. >> >> For each RC, he has submitted a vote on thrift-dev, asking for folks to >> validate that both the code is good and, to the best of their knowledge, >> the release is validly licensed/etc. >> >> These votes can be taken to show the extent to which the community is >> behind a release. By community I am not limiting it to committers - >> include anyone actively participating in the development of the code and >> community. >> >> Until yesterday, Bryan's last RC has not had a single response nor vote >> in five days. It still only has votes from mentors, and none from the >> Thrift community. >> >> I can only take this as a sign that the Thrift community is either not >> behind Bryan's releases, or more likely that the Thrift community is not >> behind formally releasing code. >> >> Without cracking this release issue, Thrift will not leave the incubator >> (seeing as *releasing* open source code to the public is what the ASF >> exists for), and incubator is not a permanent place for projects. Thrift >> needs to be setting its sights on graduating, or on moving elsewhere. >> >> Am I right in my assumption that the Thrift community is not interested >> in releasing code? Is everyone happy just running off trunk? Am I >> missing something? Do folks actually want Thrift to release code? Or >> should Thrift move somewhere else and just get on with developing the >> codebase as it generally does now? >> >> Upayavira >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
