Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 799C110F51 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:20:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16968 invoked by uid 500); 10 Dec 2013 23:20:18 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 16835 invoked by uid 500); 10 Dec 2013 23:20:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 16827 invoked by uid 99); 10 Dec 2013 23:20:18 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:20:18 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy includes SPF record at spf.trusted-forwarder.org) Received: from [66.111.4.28] (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:20:13 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A5820E9F for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:19:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:19:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=w2bIhqTIQ9IF8DUnYh3wgcBmZXM=; b=nYcpUzMLuUCdpe/pT6j4C7Wm7W4O F0CQ9zKZOLa2VAYiCsTxv9Va8oQflzCM3WOUr9Mm2ctkEfdwxHAHieMxrwz8e2yC huTP7bPWVlZRd4BWm4ZmDsJ+dJjLMSbZ5u3M3zYAxdkIUMTjtxqG8I94rA4da5P4 UcbyAjWEkhdW+vg= X-Sasl-enc: sPDiR8cb4M2MakO0NvBCIHtGzplY+F3jcPqnJmZh+BMg 1386717591 Received: from localhost (unknown [123.51.79.54]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9D8A26800B2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:19:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:19:48 +1100 From: David Crossley To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: IP Clearance before releasing Message-ID: <20131210231948.GA13442@igmb.local> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org ant elder wrote: > Benson Margulies wrote: > > > > If we deleted every > > release from the main Foundation distro area that had some divergence > > from some policy, no matter how tiny, my suspicion is that the distro > > area would become rather sparse. > > Yes quite. And lets not forget how the "rules" keep changing eg not so > long ago people were insisting that all sorts of stuff absolutely must > be put in the NOTICE file where as now it absolutely must NOT be > there, who know what it will be like next year. I disagree with that summary. The "principles and constraints" (not "rules") do not keep changing. Instead it is that people seem to not understand those, and it takes time to weed out the misguided behaviours and documentation. -David > And the Incubator _is_ different and does have different policy and > rules, hence on occasion podlings being permitted to do releases which > include GPL dependencies while Incubating and just fixing those up as > a graduation requirement. > > ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org