That's not going to happen on the user list, since that is against ASF policy (http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html):
During the process of developing software and preparing a release, various > packages are made available to the developer community for testing > purposes. Do not include any links on the project website that might > encourage non-developers to download and use nightly builds, snapshots, > release candidates, or any other similar package. The only people who are > supposed to know about such packages are the people following the dev list > (or searching its archives) and thus aware of the conditions placed on the > package. If you find that the general public are downloading such test > packages, then remove them. > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Chris Fregly <ch...@fregly.com> wrote: > this is a valid question. there are many people building products and > tooling on top of spark and would like access to the latest snapshots and > such. today's ink is yesterday's news to these people - including myself. > > what is the best way to get snapshot releases including nightly and > specially-blessed "preview" releases so that we, too, can say "try the > latest release in our product"? > > there was a lot of chatter during the 2.0.0/2.0.1 release that i largely > ignored because of conflicting/confusing/changing responses. and i'd > rather not dig through jenkins builds to figure this out as i'll likely get > it wrong. > > please provide the relevant snapshot/preview/nightly/whatever repos (or > equivalent) that we need to include in our builds to have access to the > absolute latest build assets for every major and minor release. > > thanks! > > -chris > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Mich Talebzadeh < > mich.talebza...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> LOL >> >> Ink has not dried on Spark 2 yet so to speak :) >> >> Dr Mich Talebzadeh >> >> >> >> LinkedIn * >> https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw >> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* >> >> >> >> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com >> >> >> *Disclaimer:* Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for >> any loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may >> arise from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly >> disclaimed. The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages >> arising from such loss, damage or destruction. >> >> >> >> On 9 August 2016 at 17:56, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> wrote: >> >>> What are you expecting to find? There currently are no releases beyond >>> Spark 2.0.0. >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jestin Ma <jestinwith.a...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> If we want to use versions of Spark beyond the official 2.0.0 release, >>>> specifically on Maven + Java, what steps should we take to upgrade? I can't >>>> find the newer versions on Maven central. >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> Jestin >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > *Chris Fregly* > Research Scientist @ PipelineIO > San Francisco, CA > pipeline.io > advancedspark.com > >