Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 98710 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2008 20:38:53 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Jun 2008 20:38:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 7908 invoked by uid 500); 17 Jun 2008 20:38:54 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 7874 invoked by uid 500); 17 Jun 2008 20:38:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact couchdb-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 7863 invoked by uid 99); 17 Jun 2008 20:38:54 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:38:54 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [89.16.172.240] (HELO bytesexual.org) (89.16.172.240) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:38:02 +0000 Received: from nslater by bytesexual.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K8htW-0001b7-Gg for couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:35:10 +0100 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:35:10 +0100 From: Noah Slater To: couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache CouchDB 0.8.0-incubating release (second round) Message-ID: <20080617203510.GE1027@bytesexual.org> Mail-Followup-To: couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org References: <20080616232144.GA23300@bytesexual.org> <1BBB1241-548B-4626-9D85-278C0BE148EF@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1BBB1241-548B-4626-9D85-278C0BE148EF@gmx.de> Organization: The Apache Software Foundation X-Noah: Awesome User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 07:05:50PM +0200, Christopher Lenz wrote: > BUGS, CHANGES, THANKS: > "Notice, license, etc" files that RAT apparently doesn't recognize Yes, these can be considered plain text documentation. > configure, Makefile.in, Makefile, etc: > Files that were generated by autotools in the build process Yes, we have no choice with these. > There are some config template files (such as couch.app.tpl.in or etc/ > default/couchdb.tpl.in) that I'm not entirely sure about. Mostly they'd > fall under the "not really creative work" category, and some of them > don't even allow comments IIUC. Yes, configuration files are hardly creative works. As these should be edited by the end user, slapping a legal notice (where syntacticly allowed) would be bad. Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/