A lot of our website stuff has peculiar licensing on it; and I don't
think anyone really cares whether or not a given webpage is Apache-licensed
or not. So I think Doug is stretching things a bit when he equates the
standards for software releases and standards for website publishing
(where we only assume Apache has a license to publish the content).
----- Original Message ----
> From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 9:31:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Publishing api docs for Subversion
>
> On 03/12/2009, Paul Querna wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:
> > > Bhuvaneswaran A wrote:
> > >>
> > >> We tend to update the api docs generated using doxygen and java doc on
> > >> a nightly basis.
> > >
> > > Unreleased artifacts should be linked only from the developer portion of
> the
> > > site and should not be hosted on the official project site. You might,
> > > e.g., just link to them on the Hudson server rather than copy them to
> > > people.apache.org. Documentation should only be published to the
> > official
> > > website after it's been included in an Apache release. This is for legal
> > > reasons: we work hard to ensure that releases have licensing in order,
> > but
> > > do not in general guarantee that licensing is correct at all times in
> source
> > > code repositories.
> >
> >
> > I'm sorry what?
> >
> > httpd and apr have published doxygen of their trunks periodically,
> > they aren't based on any release.
>
> And large parts of the ASF website (which can be considered as
> documentation) are not subject to formal "release" votes.
>
> Doug's comments seem OK if they refer to code releases, but surely
> documentation is not subject to release votes?
>
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