On 10/19/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> the source is the heart of any apache release. most issues with > releases are actually issues with the source. a community that does > not understand how to create source that can be released cannot (in my > opinion) graduate. But then you are aware that we always have been very careful about our source. We have created oversight processes specifically tailored to special IP issues we face, and consider this on every contribution, and every third- party dependency we use.
i have no doubts about the process. releases, though, have proved to be an educational process here in the incubator. i ran RAT against the snapshots. not bad but has a few of the usual problems (some missing license headers from property, configuration, scripts and css documents). as mentioned, unless harmony's policy is to discourage people from posting jars in the repositories they need LICENSE and NOTICE files. i also think that antlr's license is missing from the third party licenses. (RAT doesn't match jars with NOTICE/LICENSE yet so there may be more.) (i'll run RAT against the source and submit a JIRA or something with the issues but may be later on next week. alternatively, checked the source out from http://code.google.com/p/arat/ but it's very user unfriendly...) no serious concerns (problems look like oversights) but there's still some work need... - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
