[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: [EDP] What is motivating this revision?

["Dave" <dave.bernstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"We're not going to do this because we're not doing it now" is a weak 
justification.

       Dave

"Bjorn Freeman-Benson" <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:ei7vui$s6m$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dave,
> You raise a point that the community-at-large is also probably interested 
> in:
>
> Dave wrote:
>> +++In the current development process, the validation phase culminates in 
>> a checkpoint review that confirms that the Project has a plan to achieve 
>> its objectives, verifies that all intellectual property rights issues 
>> have been resolved, and ensures the Project is consistent with the 
>> expectations established in the Project Proposal. This checkpoint review 
>> provides a further opportunity for Members to identify any intellectual 
>> property they may have that may be infringed/misappropriated by the 
>> Project without a license to that intellectual property. In the proposed 
>> process revision, when would these checks be performed?
>
> This revised development process is motivated by the desire to have the 
> process-as-written match the process-as-practiced [1]. Eclipse currently 
> does not have Validation reviews and thus they have been removed from the 
> process document.
>
> [1] 
> http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2006/09/your-comments-on-eclipse-development.html
>
> - Bjorn