On 3/16/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But times change. Apparently now people think that since the Incubator PMC has binding votes on podling releases, then these things *are* indeed official releases, providing both the usual legal protections to PMC members who voted for it, and assurance to downstream users that things like code provenance have already been vetted. If we buy into this philosophy, then a restriction on publishing artifacts to p.a.o/dist and the mirrors, and having a separate incubator repository for them, are ridiculous and should be removed.
To be clear, as Roy and others have pointed out *many* times, the rationale has nothing to do with legal or real policy issues - but a simple fact that if the release is not in /www.a.o/dist, it will *not* be backed up or mirrored. I view that as completely unacceptable. infra@ does not have the resources to set up a separate mirroring system or backup system just for Incubator. Incubator *has* to follow the ASF-wide policies on releases. I don't view any wiggle room at all on this point. This is also largely why I couldn't care less about Maven because if the real release is being archived and mirrored, then any Maven repository just serves as a useless duplicate. So, folks can do whatever they want there... -- justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
