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svn commit: r660826 - in /infrastructure/site/trunk:
docs/legal/drafts/process-draft.html xdocs/legal/drafts/process-draft.xml
Author: bayard
Date: Tue May 27 23:13:34 2008
New Revision: 660826
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=660826&view=rev
Log:
Including Sam's comments
Added:
infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/drafts/process-draft.html (with props)
Modified:
infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/drafts/process-draft.xml
Added: infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/drafts/process-draft.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/drafts/process-draft.html?rev=660826&view=auto
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--- infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/drafts/process-draft.html (added)
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+ <h1>ASF Development Process</h1>
+ </div>
+ </div>
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+ <div class="block">
+ <div class="column span-8 prepend-16 search searchsub">
+ <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
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+<p>DRAFTDRAFTDRAFT</p>
+
+<h4>
+ Purpose and Intended Audience
+</h4>
+<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>
+</div>
+
+<h4>
+ Incoming code
+</h4>
+<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>
+<li>A large one off code contribution</li>
+<li>Repeated contributions applied directly to the source</li>
+<li>Patches applied to issue trackers</li>
+<li>Small patches submitted to the mailing list</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Each of these methods has its own process:</p>
+<ol type="i">
+<li>New projects join through the Apache Incubator project. All copyright holders have to sign <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Contributor License Agreements</a> or <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants">Software Grants</a>,
+and names are checked for trademark issues. CLAs tend to be for individuals who will continue to develop the software, while grants are for those who will
+not commit or for companies. You can learn more about that process <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">here</a>. </li>
+<li>One off code donations can come in through a <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt">software grant</a>. You can see list of such grants at the
+<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html">IP Clearance page</a>. </li>
+<li>Individuals who want to directly contribute to the project sign a <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt">Individual Contributor License Agreement</a> (CLA). Sometimes they and their employer will also want to sign a
+separte <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt">Corporate CLA</a> with the ASF, depending on the situation. Usually these contributions take the effect of commits to the source code repository, another example is for access to updating the website through a content management system. </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'. Developers using the Bugzilla issue tracker have to check for this . </li>
+<li>Mailing list patches are applied and expected to be simple. The same applies for inline comments in the issue trackers, or any other form of conversation. None of these tools easily support complex patches. </li>
+</ol>
+<p>No matter how the code gets in, when it hits the source code repository an email is sent out to the mailing list in charge of that repository detailing the change. At which point the relevant Project Management Committee (PMC) are able to review the code. In some rare cases review-then-commit is used instead of commit-then-review and the patch has already been reviewed prior to committing. </p>
+<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>
+</div>
+
+<h4>
+ Outgoing code
+</h4>
+<div class="section-content">
+<p>All releases require a successful vote from the releasing project's 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
+any additional 3rd party requirements. The Incubator Project contains the <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal">Release Audit Tool</a>
+(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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+
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Modified: infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/drafts/process-draft.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/drafts/process-draft.xml?rev=660826&r1=660825&r2=660826&view=diff
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--- infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/drafts/process-draft.xml (original)
+++ infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/drafts/process-draft.xml Tue May 27 23:13:34 2008
@@ -38,20 +38,23 @@
<li>A large one off code contribution</li>
<li>Repeated contributions applied directly to the source</li>
<li>Patches applied to issue trackers</li>
+<li>Small patches submitted to the mailing list</li>
</ol>
<p>Each of these methods has its own process:</p>
<ol type="i">
-<li>New projects join through the Apache Incubator project. All copyright holders have to sign Contributor License Agreements or Software Grants,
+<li>New projects join through the Apache Incubator project. All copyright holders have to sign <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Contributor License Agreements</a> or <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants">Software Grants</a>,
and names are checked for trademark issues. CLAs tend to be for individuals who will continue to develop the software, while grants are for those who will
not commit or for companies. You can learn more about that process <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">here</a>. </li>
-<li>One off code donations can come in through a software grant. You can see list of such grants at the
+<li>One off code donations can come in through a <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt">software grant</a>. You can see list of such grants at the
<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html">IP Clearance page</a>. </li>
-<li>Individuals who will repeatedly commit to the codebase sign a Contributor License Agreement. Sometimes they and their employer will also want to sign a
-<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt">Corporate CLA</a>, however it is at the desire of employee and employer and not something the
-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>
+<li>Individuals who want to directly contribute to the project sign a <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt">Individual Contributor License Agreement</a> (CLA). Sometimes they and their employer will also want to sign a
+separte <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt">Corporate CLA</a> with the ASF, depending on the situation. Usually these contributions take the effect of commits to the source code repository, another example is for access to updating the website through a content management system. </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'. Developers using the Bugzilla issue tracker have to check for this . </li>
+<li>Mailing list patches are applied and expected to be simple. The same applies for inline comments in the issue trackers, or any other form of conversation. None of these tools easily support complex patches. </li>
</ol>
+<p>No matter how the code gets in, when it hits the source code repository an email is sent out to the mailing list in charge of that repository detailing the change. At which point the relevant Project Management Committee (PMC) are able to review the code. In some rare cases review-then-commit is used instead of commit-then-review and the patch has already been reviewed prior to committing. </p>
+
<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
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@
</section>
<section><title>Outgoing code</title>
-<p>All releases require a successful vote from the releasing project's Project Management Committee (PMC). If a project is in the
+<p>All releases require a successful vote from the releasing project's 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
any additional 3rd party requirements. The Incubator Project contains the <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal">Release Audit Tool</a>
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