Hi, The question to ask is, will these artefacts be used by users or intended for their use? i.e. people who are not subscribed to the mailing list or not committers or PMC members? If so, then by ASF definition, that artefact is a release and needs to be voted on by the PPMC/IPMC.
Have other incubating projects made non-ASF releases while in incubation? In a small number of cases, yes, mostly while they were getting their code base in order but not after they had made an ASF release, and there we very clearly labelled as non-ASF releases. Re official documentation/process that describes this distinction? Yes, that policy page sets that out. See, for instance [1] and [2] for why it needs to be this way. The Incubator distribution guideline also covers this [3]. You see that at [4] "Release candidates, nightlys and snapshots must not be advertised to the general public.” and you can read [5] for why. The release distribution policy also touches on this e.g. [6] Kind Regards, Justin 1. https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#host-rc 2. https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#why 3. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/Distribution+Guidelines 4. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/distribution.html#release_platforms 5. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/distribution.html#motivation 6. https://infra.apache.org/release-distribution.html#maven --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pekko.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pekko.apache.org
