Hi, I'd like to ask for clarification on the "no releases" policy. In that, I refer to a thread called "the no releases policy" from March 2009. [1] In that thread a distinction is made between a "personal" release and an "Apache release".
A "personal release" would be declared as something that is not voted upon by an Apache PMC. In particular, it would be published without the acknowledgement of 3 PMC members. Several people in this thread (including William Rowe, who seemed to have had something like the last word) have expressed that it is fine to a) create an SVN tag in a lab's SVN. b) publish files like <mylab>-<myversion>-src.tar.gz and/or <mylab>-<myversion>-bin.tar.gz, for example on people.apache.org in my home directory c) publish files like <mylab>-<myversion>.jar on repo1.maven.org What I must not do is to use the Apache brand. For example, I must not name my files apache-<mylab>-<myversion>-bin.tar.gz. Likewise, I must not use "Apache MyLab" in the accompanying documentation. And I can imagine that I should clearly express, that this is a personal release only in the appropriate locations. And, of course, I cannot expect protection in the case of IP related questions caused by my personal release. (Which is absolutely fine, if the code was completely invented by me.) OTOH, in the same thread, Paul Querna disagreed. What's more, just a few days later, he proposed in the thread "[VOTE] Complete Orthrus Lab" (also on [1]) his wish to leave the Labs with the inability to publish releases as the reason. Noone disagreed and the vote acknowledged his wish. Thanks, Jochen [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/labs-labs/200903.mbox/thread -- I Am What I Am And That's All What I Yam (Popeye) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
