Just for the record: The website is updated (from the branch that will hopefully be released soon).
Till On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> wrote: >> ant elder wrote: >>> Hi Marvin, I had a look, that README being pointed to is just build >>> instructions on how to build the svn trunk isn't it, so not to some >>> released artifacts. Thats allowed isn't it, i'm pretty sure other projects >>> and podlings have done something similar anyway. Is it that the website >>> describes it as user installation instructions rather than developer build >>> instructions thats the issue? >>> >>> ...ant >> >> I reckon so. To clearly refer developers to developer resources >> is fine, but users no. They need to be referred to user instructions. > > In VXQuery's case, there's nothing to refer users to because in four years, > VXQuery has never made an incubating release. > > If developer instructions for accessing version control are added to the > website in accordance with ASF guidelines, of course that's fine -- so > long as all "user installation" instructions are removed. > > Here's more background from the legal-discuss list regarding the current > policy, > this time from a different Board member, Doug Cutting: > > http://markmail.org/message/pelvob23vrzuzws5 > > Each PMC should attempt to ensure that every commit is in accord with > Apache's intellectual property policies. Releases are a double-check of > this. We hope that source code repositories are not legally considered > publications, but we don't know that courts will in fact always treat them > that way, so it's best to guard against that too. Note that the extra > scrutiny around releases both serves to double-check (belt and suspenders) > as well as to provide evidence that we do not consider the source code > repository as a publication. But again, we cannot depend on others to > agree with that, and must guard against other interpretations as best we > can. > > If VXQuery finds it uncomfortable not to have anything they can show users, > they can solve that by making a release. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
