> As far as I understand though, it is required by the way the Apache release > process works.
Okay, that makes sense. I was assuming that was the restriction. > I was thinking as a work around that maybe we could publish a second > set of staging artifacts that are versioned with -rcX for people to > test against. I think that would be really helpful. For scala, the rc/milestone releases are even pushed to Maven central, although I understand if that's not worth doing for Spark. - Stephen
