On 18 December 2017 at 23:13, Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Also, the quickstart page > https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/quick-start/ > says to clone the development branch of the code. > > Only source that has been formally approved by the PMC should be advertised. > > > I’m not sure that applies to source code just to unproved releases. i.e. you
Source code is the primary output of ASF projects. > can’t post links to unproved releases like nightly builds and the like [1] > (and even some projects do this) e.g. [3] but make it clear it’s not an > official build. Many top level projects I’ve looked at include links to the > work in progress repo and some projects have no distinction between master > and develop. That does not make it right. It also depends which part of the website has the links. It's OK to link to the repo from pages intended for developers, but not from pages intended for the general public. > Perhaps just change that page and suggest that people use the download page > [2] to get an official release above where that the repo information is > listed and note that the develop branch may contain code that is not in an > official release? > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#host-rc > 2. https://rocketmq.apache.org/dowloading/releases/ > 3. https://ant.apache.org/nightlies.html
