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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by cr...@apache.org on 2008/03/27 01:27:52 UTC
svn commit: r641659 -
/infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/process-draft.html
Author: crossley
Date: Wed Mar 26 17:27:51 2008
New Revision: 641659
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=641659&view=rev
Log:
Re-build "process-draft" html doc.
Modified:
infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/process-draft.html
Modified: infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/process-draft.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/process-draft.html?rev=641659&r1=641658&r2=641659&view=diff
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--- infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/process-draft.html (original)
+++ infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/process-draft.html Wed Mar 26 17:27:51 2008
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!--
-Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
+Copyright 1999-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
@@ -13,21 +14,120 @@
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
-->
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- </properties>
-<body>
-<section>
-<title>ASF Development Process</title>
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <!--
+ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+ This file is generated from XML source: DO NOT EDIT!
+ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+ -->
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style/style.css" type="text/css" />
+ <link rel="alternate" title="ASF legal-disuss Mailing List" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/?format=atom" />
+ <title>ASF Development Process - The Apache Software Foundation</title>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr><!-- SITE BANNER AND PROJECT IMAGE -->
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
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+ </td>
+ <!-- CONTENT -->
+ <td align="left" valign="top" class="content">
+ <h2><img src="/images/redarrow.gif" alt=" "/>
+ ASF Development Process
+</h2>
+<div class="section-content">
<p>DRAFTDRAFTDRAFT</p>
-<section><title>Purpose and Intended Audience</title>
+<h3>
+ Purpose and Intended Audience
+</h3>
+<div class="section-content">
<p>Here we summarize the process of development at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), with a focus on the legal side of things. It's
intended for those who are interested as to what the ASF do to manage the ownership of their products. </p>
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Incoming code</title>
+</div>
+<h3>
+ Incoming code
+</h3>
+<div class="section-content">
<p>Source code enters the foundation in one of the following ways: </p>
<ol type="i">
<li>New project joining Apache</li>
@@ -47,17 +147,16 @@
ASF require. </li>
<li>Patches to the JIRA issue trackers contain a checkbox that users must check to 'Grant license to ASF for inclusion in ASF works'. </li>
</ol>
-
<p>In addition to original code licensed to the Apache Software Foundation, Apache products may include third party code. Whether or not to distribute,
or use, that third party code is discussed on the legal-discuss@ mailing list as to whether the license is acceptable. The very general philosophy is to
avoid licenses adding terms beyond the ASF's AL 2.0 license, while also remaining pragmatic towards the needs of the user. Prior decisions may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html">here</a>. </p>
-
-<p>Finally, Apache projects record their export classifications <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/">here</a>. </p>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Outgoing code</title>
+<p>Finally, Apache projects record their export classifications <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/">here</a>. </p>
+</div>
+<h3>
+ Outgoing code
+</h3>
+<div class="section-content">
<p>All releases require a successful vote from the releasing project's Project Management Committee (PMC). If a project is in the
Incubator, then the PMC is the overall Incubator PMC and not the incubating project's PPMC. </p>
<p>In addition to technical quality - releases are checked to confirm source contains source headers, that LICENSE and NOTICE files are there and include
@@ -65,8 +164,79 @@
(RAT) podling, a tool already in use across Apache to automate checking the quality of product releases. </p>
<p>Lastly, releases are checksummed with MD5/SHA1 so that downloads can be checked for quality; and securely signed with PGP to confirm it is the originally
released material. </p>
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