Hopefully legal will change their opinion. If not I will try to see if there is some alternative.
I understand that software is supposed to be developed in the open at Apache. But if the goal of the code is to meet a legal requirement and it doesn't, it seems reasonable that traces of it shouldn't remain in the open source world to be potentially proliferated. -Alex On 11/29/12 4:49 PM, "Greg Reddin" <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally I don't see any way I can support being forced to develop this in > private. Apache doesn't work that way. I suppose if that's the only choice > they give us and Chris is willing to do it on his own he can submit it to us > as a patch but there's no guarantee it will be accepted. For myself I'd prefer > to manually download the artifacts than to accept an agreement like that. > > At this point I don't guess I would veto a commit if this is what it comes to > but this is a horrible way to develop a plugin that is essential to many Flex > users. It should be developed in the open in a way that addresses everybody's > needs including Adobe's and the community's. This is a slap in the face to the > Apache Way. > > Sent from my mobile device. > > On Nov 29, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> Our legal team requested a few days to consider whether they really need >> this developed in private. So if they come back that they want it to be >> private I will present this option. >> >> If you want to wait to get their answer that is fine, or you can start now >> but please do it in private. >> >> >> On 11/29/12 2:52 PM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> >> wrote: >> >>> Another option would be to place dummy files on the Adobe download servers >>> (but allready with the real names) and to develop the mojo publically ... as >>> soon as Adobe is sattisfied with the license accepting and downloading part, >>> they could replace the dummy files with real ones and we could concentrate >>> on >>> "mavenizing" the donload. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: Justin Mclean [mailto:justinmcl...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Justin >>> Mclean >>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. November 2012 23:43 >>> An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Betreff: Re: [POLL] Maven and Apache Flex >>> >>> HI, >>> >>>> One important thing, legal may want you to develop this plug-in >>>> without checking it into any public source code repository until they >>>> have a chance to see it work. >>> Can you give their reasons behind this? >>> >>> Wouldn't it be better to have it worked on collaboratively in the open by >>> the >>> community? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin >> >> -- >> Alex Harui >> Flex SDK Team >> Adobe Systems, Inc. >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
