Can't any ASL licensed artifact be posted to ibiblio? Does that fact not completely circumvent the whole intention of making a separate incubating repository?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:40 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Killing the incubator m2 repository > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > Yes, If the apache projects like say Axis2 and Geronimo set > up their > > pom's in a certain fashion (using m2's scope=provided > mechanism), end > > users will have to add incubator repos explicitly/consciously and > > won't get podling jars pulled in w/o their knowledge. > > What's the burden imposed by this on the user? Does this > mean that we could eliminate the Incubator specific > repository in favor of <scope>provided</scope>? And is this > an appropriate thing, since if Axis2 or Geronimo do that, > doesn't it mean that the jar is no longer packaged with them > when they release? Is that an issue? > > If the goals are to help protect users from a naive (as > contrasted with an > informed) dependence on projects that haven't yet earned > their ASF-status, and to ensure that Incubator projects > aren't just trying to cash in on the ASF-brand without > adopting our methods, where are the appropriate lines of control? > > If (for the sake of argument) WS decides to ship some > Incubator JAR as part of some WS release, and is supporting > the release are they counting on the Incubator JAR, or on you > providing certain functionality? Of course, that ought to > weigh into your own decision to include the JAR in the first place. > Would this be the same as a company using Roller in > production to sell a service while Roller was still in the > Incubator? A service purchaser is expecting a blog, but > perhaps not counting on how that functionality is provided. > Should it depend on whether the JAR's API is exposed, or > simply some functionality that you can maintain/replace? > Again, reflecting back on the goals. > > --- Noel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
