Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote: > > It was me who brought this up. A couple of years ago, I got educated about > this topic by an Apache Member (unfortunately, I don't remember who that > was) and from that point on, I didn't allow releases in XML Graphics with > snapshot JARs. Indeed, I haven't found any hard evidence myself about this > policy so I brought this up among the ASF membership. The discussion is > still going on and it's not clear, yet, what the outcome will be. It will > probably be somewhere between "no problem with snapshots" and "no go with > snapshots". At the moment, just ignore this and I will update you when I can > say more. Hopefully, this will result in an update of the release handling > documentation on www.apache.org/dev. What I can already say is that > releasing Forrest with snapshot JARs means the Forrest PMC takes > responsibility for those snapshots and what's in them.
Thanks for your help, mate. Perhaps a few of us can help to summarise that. On the members discussion there was reference to a recent Incubator discussion which is of big help, especially comments from Leo and Roy. http://markmail.org/message/frekppfayz3eihf3 "Including snapshot dependencies from other ASF projects" -David
