Yeah. I think it's fine. I think intent matters and how we promote these snapshots. It just needs to be clear that it's for dev, not for consumption by others. On Jun 11, 2014 3:04 PM, "Billie Rinaldi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think snapshots are okay. This link [1] on release distribution says > there is also a dev release area for things like snapshots and release > candidates. So I would imagine maven snapshots are okay too, as long as > we're deploying to the snapshots repo and not the releases repo. We just > aren't allowed to link to or direct people to download snapshot versions as > if they were releases. > > [1]: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#upload-ci > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't know for sure about what was done in the past, but we should > > consider the ASF policy about not making non releases generally available > > to non devs before we make this change. Can try to find link to policy > > later. > > Before we released 1.6.0, I got a request to upload some new > 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT > > jars. After thinking about it some more, I convinced myself that we, at > one > > point, had SNAPSHOTs being automatically deployed by Jenkins. > > > > Does anyone remember for sure? Was it lost in the svn->git transition? > Any > > arguments against not trying to make this work again? > > >
