Oliver-Ranier, You have written an excellent summary.
These "releases" both official source releases and user convenience binaries are distinct and voted. These should not be confused with the following: (1) current svn source trunk. (2) binaries built for QA, l10n, or other purposes especially release candidates. As long as we do not distribute these unofficial internal purpose artifacts to our release channels and do not promote these to the general public as releases we are doing our best. Rob mentions edge cases where an internal to the project build gets out. For this case it might make sense to discuss with infra on IRC if a people account is a concern of theirs and how they would prefer to mitigate that risk. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:43 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
