On Jul 26, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you provide one example? Just curious....
While it was incubating, Wicket did a few non-ASF releases on their
old project site, to minimize disruption for their existing users
while they were repackaging and cleaning up for an ASF release.
And even after we had graduated. Wicket 1.2.7 (the final maintenance
release for the 1.2 branch) was created in last March. We didn't use
the Apache mirroring system and put a disclaimer in it that the
release was non-Apache. [1]
I haven't been following the Wicket history too closely. I assume
that this branch is in the ASF Subversion repository.
So is it safe to say that the Wicket 1.2 branch is a pre-incubation
branch? What changes were made with regards to ASF/Incubator policy?
I'm wondering if this branch stayed the same, e.g. old package names,
or were there changes made to this branch to bring it in line with ASF
policies.
This is a service we provide for our users that were with us before we
moved to apache and are counting on us to provide support on their
production systems. However, since we are a volunteer effort with
limited resources, we have discontinued to support the 1.2 branch
(though we will act on security issues) and now focus on Apache
software :).
I haven't followed all of this discussion, but IIUC that's a
similar situation.
Yep, and it really is a problem IMO when incoming *open source*
projects have to ditch their collected history. If we care about code
provenance, having the full history available is best.
Keeping the history to maintain code provenance is one thing, and a
good thing. Maintaining and making non-ASF releases on ASF
infrastructure is another. It seems that the latter has been done
before, e.g. Wicket. Are their any guidelines for doing this?
Regards,
Alan
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