On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jonathan Ellis<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:49 AM, ant elder<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Jonathan Ellis<[email protected]> wrote: >> What do you mean by an "unofficial" release? A "release" needs follow >> the ASF release procedures and be voted on so needs svn tags, and >> distributions to review etc right? > > I mean that I will put a tarball up in my personal space for people to > test but it will not go through the full mentor gauntlet nor will it > be recommended for more than temporary use. > > There was a long discussion about this back in May in the "Cassandra > 0.3 RC is out" thread: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cassandra-dev/200905.mbox/browser > > My impression was that the consensus from the mentors, including > Matthieu and Bertrand, was that it's both okay and common to do > nightly builds or betas like this, as long as it's not implied that > these are Official ASF Releases. > > -Jonathan >
Its common to have nightly builds. Its common do beta's that have been voted on by a PMC. Those are quite different to a someone creating something called "0.4.0 beta 1" and advertising that to users as an unofficial release. Whats the problem following the ASF release procedures and letting the PMC vote on the artifacts before they're released? Even if nothing else it would help with graduation to show that happening. ...ant
