On 8/16/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cliff Schmidt wrote: > > On 8/10/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Cliff Schmidt wrote: > >> > >>>On 8/8/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I don't mind an incubating project making verifiable releases with > >>>>proper voting and the appropriate disclaimers. > >>> > >>>I completely agree, and I believe this is exactly what projects want to do. > >>> > >>>Are there any PMC members who disagree with Roy's opinion? > >> > >>Certainly not me. > >> > > I just really want to make sure I'm not misinterpreting Roy's > > statement. Why would there be any debate at all about what JDO wanted > > to do if the statement above was the consensus of the PMC? > > Because they wanted to do something else, namely publish a snapshot to a > maven repository, a thing which exists primarily so build tools can do > automated downloads of its contents without bothering the user of said > build tool much about it, hence lacks "appropriate disclaimers". > > Furthermore, its becoming common practice around the open source java > land to call things a "snapshot" to wiggle out of doing "proper voting" > or building "verifiable releases". > > So they failed at least one and potentially all of the requirements.
ahh -- I thought they were only talking about doing snapshot releases because they believed it was their only choice while in incubation; this is why I wanted it clear that a proper release could be done by an incubating project that follows the branding guidelines. Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
