Download page on the website points to the snapshots repo. As these
materials are not covered by a release, they have less guarantees than a
release (for example, a release has legal protection to the person doing
the release; it's part of being more than an individuals responsibility
and hence liability).
What I didn't know was that linking on the website to the snapshots repo
is explicitly mentioned:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what
The key here is that the website is public facing and releases are
permanent, immutable and voted on; snapshots are mutable and don't have
the same guarantees through voting. Mixing release and non-release may
create a false impression.
I think we should remove the text on download page, at least for now.
I've done this on staging:
http://jena.staging.apache.org/download/index.cgi
as an example.
Andy
