[eclipse-pmc] Do we still need to file CQs?

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Last week Wayne posted some updates on the IP process [1].  Please pay special attention to "Leverage other sources of license information for third-party content." and "ClearlyDefined is a trusted source of license information." paragraphs .

It's worth noting that PB CQs are no longer needed too.

According to this I could have skipped filing CQ for ICU4J 67.1 [2] and rather pointed to clearlydefined.io [3] and get it contributed to Orbit based on that.

That would be a huge reduction for releng as right now updating deps is still a lengthy and painful process involving many steps by committer/pmc/IP team/orbit committer and etc.

Let's discuss at some of the next PMC meetings when we have everyone.

[1] https://waynebeaton.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/updates-to-the-eclipse-ip-due-diligence-process/

[2] https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22320

[3] https://clearlydefined.io/definitions/maven/mavencentral/com.ibm.icu/icu4j/67.1

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Alexander Kurtakov

Red Hat Eclipse Team