On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> > The Hadoop PMC is utterly free to produce a Hadoop RPM with Hadoop in it > > that corresponds to an Apache Hadoop release. Having project Foo > produce a > > release of Bar, Baz and Pigdog is pretty far off the reservation, > however. > > It is. But if they screw up packaging guidelines inadvertently and the > downstream > want to take matters in their own hands -- how is it "off the reservation"? > The downstream shouldn't be calling their artifacts Hadoop if they aren't the Hadoop PMC in any case. > > Remember -- we're still talking producing binary packages from exact same > source release that PMC blessed -- just using different build and packaging > mechanics. > And a different project.
