On 24 July 2013 19:07, Kasper Sørensen <[email protected]>wrote:
> I also felt that having a release soon is a > priority in order to show activity from the incubation perspective. > Don't worry about getting the release out to satisfy some arbitrary "activity" metric. We can demonstrate activity via mailing list posts, commits, etc. > Maybe a snapshot (or other non-final) way of releasing would be good? Maybe > my use of the word "release" wasn't entirely in line with what we can > define as a "proper" release. Aye. The word "release" is very special, so we need to be careful about how we use it. There is no such thing as a "proper" release, as that implies a less formal one. But the ASF makes no such distinction. > What I had in mind is at least to make public > a set of artifacts on the maven central, so that people can start using > MetaModel with the org.apache namespace. Potentially well-knowing that > there will be some breaking changes coming in the near future. That's fine. But we need to call them snapshots, or nightlies, or builds, or whatever. And when we talk about them, or link to them, we need to be very clear with our language that these are not releases, they are not meant to regular users, and should be downloaded and used by devs only. > Is that doable on short > notice, and then we can rather plan a roadmap to a more official/final > release? > You could do that now, if you wish. Just bung some files in your web space on people.apache.org. As long as you don't call them releases, or even hint at the idea that they're releases, then everything should be fine. -- NS
