On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:45 AM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 02/12/2018 09:42 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> I have a little question regarding binary data in ASF repos. > > > > IMO It’s only compiled code that’s not allowed, other binary formats > like image, pdfs, fonts etc ect are all OK so this should also be OK. I can > point to a number of releases reviewed here that have had binary files (but > not compiled source code) in them. Might be a good to label them clearly so > anyone who looks know what they are. > > Totally fine, yep. > The reasoning is, we can't vote on binary _code_, only the source. > If the binary data is test data, there is nothing to _code_ to verify. > There are plenty of examples. We don't vote on JPEGs and PNGs either ;) Right. Apache Subversion has been shipping binary test blobs for *years*. One example of its many artifacts can be seen: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/upgrade_tests_data/ I agree with Justin and Daniel. No compiled code, but blobs are fair game. If the provenance is at question (eg. images collected from the Internet), then a README is likely warranted to note their origin. If they arrived under (say) a CC license, then they'd need further notation in LICENSE/NOTICE. Cheers, -g
