Hi,
In the thread regarding our planned release for further languages - thread
subject "[RELEASE]: new languages for AOO 3.4.1" - a discussion took place about
what we want/should release and what kind of binary packages should be made
available and on which location.
Thus, I just want to share what I had learned in the discussions with Apache
members at the ApacheCon EU 2012 regarding releases made by an ASF project. The
discussion was more or less about all paragraphs in section "What Is A Release?"
found at [1]:
<my lesson learned>
A release - in nomenclature of ASF - is more or less the publication of the open
source material of an ASF project.
A binary packages which are produced on the basis of a certain release are only
for the convenience to the users. These binary packages do not belong to the
released material.
</my lesson learned>
My conclusions for our AOO project releases are:
- An AOO release consists of the source package which we are creating based on a
certain revision of our source code repository.
- We are producing certain binary packages based on the same source code
repository revision which we had tested in advanced.
- We are providing the produced binary packages as convenience to our users
together this the publication of our release.
[1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#releases
Best regards, Oliver.
