+1 on the proposal
> On 7 Nov 2025, at 14:36, Josh McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > - These would fall under the "Nightly Builds" area of ASF releases: > https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#what. So no publishing them > on our site for downloads. I'd advocate for an email to dev@ and user@ to try > and drum up some interest. Could give a brief overview of what's in the alpha > over the past few months so people would know where to focus testing efforts > and exploration. Anything brought to user@ should then be a formal release not a nightly. That does not mean a formal release changes any of the limitations that alpha imposes, nor that it needs to appear on the downloads page. The "formal" bit on release terminology here is solely about the governance of the release of source code at that sha. It's really nothing to do with QA status of the version (but that of course typically aligns to be so in projects). I propose on that aspect we go through the normal release voting process but just not put them on the downloads page, and on user@ refer to them as akin to nightlies.
