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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:33:29 -0500
From: "Benson Margulies" <bimargulies@gmail.com>
To: legal-discuss@apache.org
Subject: Re: How do things get resolved
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I'm sorry to be a bit dense. Should I go ahead and open a JIRA to get
an up-or-down resolution on just checking it where I can check it in,
or does your proposal for a Coventry in svn take precedence?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org> wrote:
> How do things get resolved?  -   Opening a JIRA issue is a good way to
> force the resolution step, questions on the list tend to be more
> consultation than permission by the nature of the forum.
>
> I've replied on the other thread. For this thread, using JIRA was our
> mechanism for driving resolution and it might be that we need to start
> moving to a "Post that in JIRA" response to non-easy questions.
>
> Hen
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Benson Margulies
> <bimargulies@apache.org> wrote:
>> Please forgive a committer on his first visit to legal-discuss.
>>
>> A few days ago I posted a question about the svn-ability of test cases
>> from the W3C with a messy license. That attracted two responses.
>>
>> Were I to be an optimist, I could construct an interpretation of those
>> answers as follows:
>>
>> So long as (a) they are just test cases that we don't ever need or
>> want to modify, and (b) we check them in to their very own directory,
>> and (c) don't incorporate them in any sort of build results, they can
>> be checked in.
>>
>> However, I'm not an optimist, and more to the point I don't know the
>> rules. Is there some legal-discuss analog to a vote? Or does this list
>> just exist to give advice to committers and in the event that push
>> comes to shove there's some other process for getting a formal answer
>> to a question.
>>
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