For ASF project the binary release are always considered as “convenience binaries”, the official release is always just the source artifacts. See the ASF release policy for more information.
https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#compiled-packages <https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#compiled-packages> > On Aug 11, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Bowen Song via dev <dev@cassandra.apache.org> > wrote: > > I'm a bit unclear what's the scope of this change. Is it limited to the > "*-bin.tar.gz" files only? > I would assume the RPM/DEB packages are considered as parts of the "official > releases", and aren't affected by this change. Am I right? > > > > On 11/08/2022 21:59, Mick Semb Wever wrote: >> >> > These repositories and their binaries are "convenience binaries" and not >> > the official Cassandra source binaries >> >> Then where are the official binaries? >> >> >> >> Wrong wording there., thanks for catching me. >> The official *releases* are the source artefacts, e.g. the *-src.tar.gz in >> https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/4.0.5/ >> <https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/4.0.5/> >> >> The binaries (e.g. *-bin.tar.gz) are not considered official, but >> convenience. >> >> https://infra.apache.org/release-distribution.html#release-content >> <https://infra.apache.org/release-distribution.html#release-content> >> https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#artifacts >> <https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#artifacts> >> >> >>
