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From: Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:04:14 +0800
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Subject: Re: Publishing npm modules
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Thanks, that was very helpful.

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
> wrote:
>
> > does anyone have any information on policy/process for uploading npm
> > modules to global registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
>
> With regards to publication of packages, npm is just another downstream
> distribution channel -- like Maven Central, Docker Hub, PyPI, CPAN, Debian,
> crates.io, etc.
>
> The main policy point that comes up is this one:
>
>     http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy#publication
>
>     Projects SHALL publish official releases and SHALL NOT publish
> unreleased
>     materials outside the development community.
>
> The second policy point that comes up frequently has to do with
> trademarks: we
> expect that anything published as "Apache Foo" will actually be "Apache
> Foo",
> and not, say, a vendor-specific "sneak peek" version incorporating
> controversial new features.
>
> It can also be important that multiple PMC members have upload permissions
> for a given distribution channel.  That's a best practice, not a policy,
> though.
>
> But these points apply across all downstream distribution channels, not
> just npm.
>
> > This is for convenience and should be similar to publishing to Maven
> > Central, but I would like to know if there is anything explicit about it.
>
> Infra provides some extra support for certain kinds of distribution (we run
> repository.apache.org, we used to run a PEAR repo, etc).  I don't know of
> any special technical support related to npm, though.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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