On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din <nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Alexei Fedotov > <alexei.fedo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 14.09.2012 3:46 пользователь "Mohammad Nour El-Din" <mn...@apache.org> >> написал: >>> One minor note: >>> - In [1] I noticed files related to Eclipse like .classpath and >>> .project, I am not sure that these files should be in a release tag. >>> Comments about that ? > > Well my concern was more like a question to raise here not actually > something to take on the project itself, to be honest I am not aware > about any rules that might prohibit that, but for at least most of the > projects I didn't see them committing IDE specific files into the > repository. Thats why I raised the question here to see what others > do.
Since these are xml files and you can definitely edit them like other build files, I can't see any reason why they could not be part of a source release either. However, I do think they need a proper license header (the file I quickly checked [1] did not have that). I'm not aware of a way to tell Eclipse to add such headers automatically, so you might have to do that by hand or some script. Greetings, Marcel [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openmeetings/tags/2.0/.project