Looks like releasing sources is possible.
The #2 is what worries me. There would be no signed binaries for the
community.
Community is where the majority of our users are and where there is
growth potential. In the past we have mainly gotten individuals
committing code or participating. Either hobbyist or consultants. I see
the source release model working well for projects that have several
vendors, each releasing a vendor signed binaries for wider audience like
for a Linux distribution(s).
Toni
On 09/02/2026 18.01, Francisco Javier Tirado Sarti wrote:
I think it is an interesting approach to a complex issue. That will allow
usage of the codebase as indirect dependency of other projects that might
find the current release cycle too large.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM Tibor Zimányi <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
as you all know, our community releases take a longer time to get out
currently. I would like to propose a discussion about a different release
model for our community. Here is the proposal, I am curious about your
feedback and what you think about it.
1. The community would follow a release process similar to OpenJDK. This
means, that the release would consists only from sources that can be used
to build the binaries and artifacts.
2. No binary builds would be published as part of Apache KIE community.
3. With the source code available, it would be up to vendors or anyone else
to decide, if they want to publish their own binaries built out of the
community sources. This would enable multiple various sets of binaries to
be available, similarly as with OpenJDK (e.g. there are Temurin builds, IBM
builds, Oracle builds, etc.).
4. No vendor can publish under existing Apache KIE groupIds and similar
artifact group names.
This would mean, we could regularly release the source code with new
functionalities and anyone who finds it beneficial to publish a set of
binaries from the sources, can do so. We may even have those binaries
vendors published on our Apache KIE website.
Looking forward to your feedback and discussion! I know it is a very
different to what we do now and I know that it would make it harder for
people that use the community binaries directly, however if enough vendors
of binaries jump on this, it shouldn't be a problem.
Best regards,
Tibor
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