Sam Ruby wrote:
> Of course, one could simply manufacture a synthetic release for the
> purposes of satisfying a perceived incubation requirement, but honestly,
> that seems more like one of the "ticky-marks driven processes" I tend to
> see within my day job than anything I would expect to see at the ASF.
+1
In MOST cases, as Robert says, going through even a pro-forma release is
useful. And Robert did find some problems using RAT. *BUT* I'll bet that he
would find that many projects have similar issues --- and we probably should
promote RAT as something for ALL ASF projects to use to help evaluate their
releases. Make testing with RAT something, as we have just started to see a
few do, that the people preparing releases use proactively to check what they
are doing.
> I am growing increasingly concerned with is that we (collectively)
> have started to lose sight on what the mission of the incubator is.
> Yes, not having a release is an indicator, but there certainly are
> other indicators. No, I'm not advocating that we "rush" projects
> out of the incubator.
Harmony may be an exception to the claimed rule, but that's why I repeatedly
advocate that we should focus on human judgment not on rules. Most of us would
agree that Harmony is ready for graduation. As Roy put it, he'd have voted +1
to release if Geir had simply posted the draft resolution and called for a vote.
--- Noel
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