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

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Merks wrote:
> 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?  


Yes.

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...


Yes, that's exactly right.  I think the problem is that currently the 
conformance is too coarse...it's applied at the entire project level 
rather than at the component level.

Scott