Bryan Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think there was some distinction in the Apache policy regarding >> "visible to developers" versus "visible to users", right? > > Following up on my own message, the two important Apache-wide > policy links appear to be: > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html > and http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#releases > > From the former page, we read that 10.4, right now, is a "Test package", > and we read this guidance: > > 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. > > I think that the bottom line is that: > > - the release candidate builds should *not* be linked from the wiki, and > - I made a mistake when I made a posting regarding the release candidate > on the derby-user list; release candidates should only be discussed > on the derby-dev list.
Well, I just made the same mistake when I posted the link to the beta in the thread about table functions on the user list. > My apologies, I'll try to be more careful in the future. I guess you're not the only one who needs to appologize... :) -- dt
