Have we documented our process somewhere. I am unsure. I think we have at least discussed this already. All arguments sound so familiar.
Am 19. Oktober 2017 02:35:29 MESZ schrieb Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>: > >> On Oct 18, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Pedro Lino <pedro.l...@mailbox.org> >wrote: >> >> >> >>> Maybe we need to ask for review of >http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval at the >same time as looking at the voting process documentation. If taken >literally, a PMC member who cannot do builds from source can't cast a >+1 vote, because their vote is binding and a binding +1 requires a >build from source. >> >> Probably the ASF wants to guarantee that at least 3 PMC members are >developers (or development inclined)? > >It’s not probably. It *IS*! > >> >>> What I would like is to change it to require at least three PMC >members to declare they have done a build from source and tested the >result. Other PMC members could vote based on binary testing and >signature checking without building. >> >> Actually for a multi-platform software such as AOO it should be >required that building from source and testing the result was carried >out by at least one voter (PMC member or not) for each of the >platforms/bit depths. >> If all three PMC members have success in building on e.g. Linux x64 >it does not provide any guarantee for the other platforms (as proven by >4.1.4 RC4) > >We had two PMC providing the community builds. The official release is >the Source release. We need as much testing as possible of the >community releases. AOO is a unique project for Apache because our >users count on the community builds and not the source releases. > >I think we have grown in the last year because in the first years here >at Apache most of the knowledge on how to build was in the minds of the >former Hamburg team - Star, Sun, Oracle and then IBM employees. > >Special thanks to Matthias and Jim how providing the Community Builds. > >Regards, >Dave > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
