Hi all: We’re having a discussion over in d...@river.apache.org that was triggered by the recent discussion here about the Spark podling release. In particular, http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201312.mbox/%3CCAAS6%3D7iQSKTgNdO-0Qyd3T9--%2B%2BHQFEmhJi7CHoByqvQvp9_bg%40mail.gmail.com%3E has caused me to start asking questions…
Since Incubator is a good repository of Apache’s institutional knowledge, I wonder if someone could point me towards resources that clarify the policy on dependency jars in releases and in the svn repository. If I understand it correctly, there shouldn’t (perhaps even must not be) any jar files checked into subversion or included in a source release. Is that correct? To be more specific, there doesn’t seem to be any doubt that jars shouldn’t be included in source release packages, but would it be fair to say that they should also not be in the svn? Thanks in advance, Greg Trasuk PMC Chair, Apache River.
