Brane, let me review the docs and get back to you. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10.03.2015 22:17, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: > > Brane, > > > > The RC1 was a legitimate Ignite release candidate as it was submitted > for a > > vote. Please let us know if there are certain documented guidelines here > > that we are not aware of. > > It's all documented here: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html > > Specifically, this is written *in bold* on that page: > > Do not include any links on the project website that might encourage > non-developers to download and use nightly builds, snapshots, > release candidates, or any other similar package. > > It is fine to call a specific package a "release candidate" and even > publish is as an ASF release under that name, but in the case of > Ignite's RC1 and RC2, these are /not/ official releases because they > have not been approved as such by the PPMC and IPMC. > > > Moreover, this RC1 zip archive provides users with the ability to kick > the > > tires with Apache Ignite ahead of time, before the official 1.0 release > is > > out. I am not sure how removing it serves either community or user base > of > > the Ignite project. > > Then tell people how to fetch a tag or specific commit from the git > repository, or simply how to clone a read-only (possibly shallow) copy. > It definitely doesn't serve the Ignite community or user base to post > confusing links to the web site.// > > > As a side note, we already have addressed all RC2 issues and are a couple > > of days away from sending out RC3 for a vote, which will most likely > become > > an official Apache Ignite 1.0 release. It will be easier to just switch > one > > zip archive with another when that happens. > > You must realize that our release policy is not arbitrary and is driven > by legal requirements. Even if RC3 is perfect, it will take at least a > week to approve (vote on dev@ must run at least 72 hours, and the same > again for the IPMC vote), so that's an extra week of confusing users and > violating ASF policies. Please remove the download link because I really > don't want to do that myself. > > > While we're on the topic of RC3, I've been trying to send my comments on > RC2 twice to this list in the last couple days, but apparently they > haven't come through ... I'll try again, hope for the best. > > -- Brane > >
