On 17 November 2011 12:51, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@gmail.com> wrote: > As much as I don't like this layout, this is not the first projet to use > it, and I don't really see how / why the IPMC should decide the svn layout > for the project. You won't be the one to manage it daily afaik, so that's > not up to you to decide imho.
The SVN layout is less of a concern, although the lack of a single tag for a release is odd. Not all of the files in SVN trunk appear in releases/ > Sling and Felix already use such a layout and they are both TLP, so I > really don't see that as a problem. > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 13:07, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 17 November 2011 10:42, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> >> wrote: >> > In my opinion, ACE is ready to begin the process of graduating from the >> Apache Incubator to a Top Level Project. >> > >> > Since joining the incubator in in May 2009 we've added 4 new committers >> (12 in total now) from diverse organizations and did a release in May this >> year to demonstrate we follow the Apache guidelines. We've shown an ability >> to self-govern using accepted Apache practices and ACE continues to attract >> new contributors and users. >> > >> > The first step is to vote as a community, demonstrating that ACE is >> ready and willing to graduate. Once this vote is succesful we create a >> board resolution proposal or Charter and start a vote on the general >> incubator list. The full process is described at >> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#toplevel >> > >> > The vote is open for at least 72 hours. >> >> The last (and only) release was 0.8, as far as I can tell. >> >> There is no KEYS file in http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/ace/, >> and there does not appear to be a full source archive of the project >> anywhere. >> The download page does not have a link to any source archives as far >> as I can tell. >> It does link to KEYS in SVN, but almost all other ASF projects have a >> copy of KEYS in the appropriate /dist directory. >> >> Normally releases are divided into binaries/ and source/ directories, >> with a KEYS file in the top-level, i.e. >> >> /dist/incubator/ace >> - KEYS >> - binaries/ace ....zip >> - sources/ace....zip >> >> Most of the files in the /dist/incubator/ace directory appear to be >> Maven artifacts; normally these are not stored in /dist but only in >> the Maven repo. >> Indeed most of the files are also in Maven Central. The only non-Maven >> files appear to be >> >> org.apache.ace.target.devgateway-0.8.0-incubator-distribution.zip >> org.apache.ace.target.devserver-0.8.0-incubator-distribution.zip >> >> neither of which contains the source. >> >> I would expect the above zips to be in >> >> /dist/incubator/ace/binaries >> >> with corresponding source files in >> >> /dist/incubator/ace/source >> >> The SVN layout [1] is also a bit unusual. >> There is no tags/ directory for release tags, although there is a >> releases/ directory containing individual entries for each release for >> each component. >> This is likely to become unmanageable very quickly, if every release >> adds another 63 directory entries under releases/ >> >> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ace/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet > ------------------------ > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------ > Open Source SOA > http://fusesource.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
