[news.eclipse.board.committer.reps] Re: Projects vs. Components and Incu

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

Before I comment about something that was decided without my input and 
hence for which I don't know all the background, let me ask you a 
question first.  Would your objection be alleviated if the requirements 
were relaxed a bit to say that only any download containing components 
that have not completed IP review be marked with incubation so that you 
could have your normal download as before and one or more separate 
downloads for the incubating components?  It seems to me the intent of 
the rule would be that you know from the download that the contained 
code is not fully EPL certified, but for any download that is fully 
certified, it seem unnecessary to mark it as incubating when in fact 
it's not...


Scott Lewis wrote:
> I request the committer reps' consideration of the following bug:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=178944
>
> The bug is about the Board policy about projects in incubation and 
> what they must do differently from projects not in incubation.
>
> What was the committer rep's input on this apparent policy decision by 
> the Board?
>
> Isn't application of this policy at the project level particularly 
> problematic for projects with some components that are mature and 
> others that are new/in incubation?  Won't this eventually be the case 
> for nearly all projects?  Which conformance rules will be used when 
> this is the case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott