Fw: Upcoming JIRA Upgrade

[Jacques Le Roux]

I have planned to handle a little change in the OFBiz Contributors Best Practices page.
I think there are no other places this was mentionned.

Jacques

From: "Doug Cutting" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Cc: "Apache Infrastructure" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Upcoming JIRA Upgrade

> An few clarifications about the removal of the license checkbox plugin:
>
> 1. Contrary to Tony's prior message, only attachments that were *not*
> submitted under the Apache
> license will be renamed after this upgrade.
>
> 2. According to the Apache license, contributions to Apache-licensed
> projects are under the Apache license by default, so the checkbox was
> only useful to specify that an attachment was *not* intended to be a
> contribution.
>
>  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#contributions
>
> 3. In the future, without the checkbox, one may instead add a comment
> stating when an attachment is not intended for contribution.
>
> 4. Removing this plugin will make it much easier for us to keep Jira
> updated to its latest version so that we can more rapidly get Jira
> bugfixes deployed.
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tony Stevenson <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> This Friday at 8am BST (http://s.apache.org/jiraup) I will be upgrading our JIRA instance as we have fallen behind on patches a
>> little, lately.
>>
>> The update itself will take us to the latest JIRA version, however as a consequence of this the ASF plugin license will not be
>> carried forward.  In other words the tick box selection to grant the license will be removed, as will the review page item that
>> shows if someone has elected to select this option historically.
>>
>> To ensure that we maintain a view on who has historically granted the license, all files that were attached with this license
>> granted will be renamed to have a prefix.  So for example, if the original file was named 'lucene-101.diff' it will be renamed to
>> 'ASF.LICENSE.GRANTED--lucene-101.diff'
>>
>> Going forward we will not be collecting this piece of data or requiring people to name their files in any special way.
>>
>> The upgrade is expected to last a few hours if all things go well.  I hope to have service restored within 4 hours, but it may
>> drag on if the renaming takes a long while.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony
>>
>> On behalf of the Apache Infrastructure Team
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Tony Stevenson
>>
>> [hidden email] // [hidden email]
>> [hidden email]
>>
>> http://blog.pc-tony.com
>>
>> GPG - 1024D/51047D66
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>>
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Done

Jacques

From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>

>I have planned to handle a little change in the OFBiz Contributors Best Practices page.
> I think there are no other places this was mentionned.
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Doug Cutting" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Cc: "Apache Infrastructure" <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Upcoming JIRA Upgrade
>
>> An few clarifications about the removal of the license checkbox plugin:
>>
>> 1. Contrary to Tony's prior message, only attachments that were *not*
>> submitted under the Apache
>> license will be renamed after this upgrade.
>>
>> 2. According to the Apache license, contributions to Apache-licensed
>> projects are under the Apache license by default, so the checkbox was
>> only useful to specify that an attachment was *not* intended to be a
>> contribution.
>>
>>  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#contributions
>>
>> 3. In the future, without the checkbox, one may instead add a comment
>> stating when an attachment is not intended for contribution.
>>
>> 4. Removing this plugin will make it much easier for us to keep Jira
>> updated to its latest version so that we can more rapidly get Jira
>> bugfixes deployed.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tony Stevenson <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> This Friday at 8am BST (http://s.apache.org/jiraup) I will be upgrading our JIRA instance as we have fallen behind on patches a
>>> little, lately.
>>>
>>> The update itself will take us to the latest JIRA version, however as a consequence of this the ASF plugin license will not be
>>> carried forward.  In other words the tick box selection to grant the license will be removed, as will the review page item that
>>> shows if someone has elected to select this option historically.
>>>
>>> To ensure that we maintain a view on who has historically granted the license, all files that were attached with this license
>>> granted will be renamed to have a prefix.  So for example, if the original file was named 'lucene-101.diff' it will be renamed
>>> to 'ASF.LICENSE.GRANTED--lucene-101.diff'
>>>
>>> Going forward we will not be collecting this piece of data or requiring people to name their files in any special way.
>>>
>>> The upgrade is expected to last a few hours if all things go well.  I hope to have service restored within 4 hours, but it may
>>> drag on if the renaming takes a long while.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> On behalf of the Apache Infrastructure Team
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>> Tony Stevenson
>>>
>>> [hidden email] // [hidden email]
>>> [hidden email]
>>>
>>> http://blog.pc-tony.com
>>>
>>> GPG - 1024D/51047D66
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>