On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Dustin Sallings <[email protected]> wrote:
I've always considered anything I give out to be a release. This includes > betas and RCs and anything else. It's important to clear up that this is NOT the case for Apache projects. A release is a set of artefacts that have been successfully voted on by the community and then released according to our official release procedure. Anything else, including the artefacts we vote on that don't make the cut, are not considered releases. And this isn't just a choice of wording either, it's a very important distinction. Anyone can prepare an artefact and put it up for the vote, but only artefacts that pass the muster are considered releases. The term "release candidate" is not an official term, and it is not defined in the ASF literature or as part of the release process. It's probably a bad choice of words too, as in other projects, a release candidate IS a sort of release that is made by the project. We don't do that here. Hope this clears things up!
