On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> wrote: > Mentors, > > We've always deployed SNAPSHOT releases to Sonatype: > > https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/tinkerpop/ > > Based on that, I have couple of questions: > > 1. Will we still deploy SNAPSHOT releases to Sonatype under Apache? I did > find this page[1] - do we simply follow those instructions? > 2. While under incubator, are we allowed to publish SNAPSHOT releases? >
Apache projects publish via our own Nexus instance. Sonatype mirrors our 'released versions' (something that has been officially released) but they do not mirror SNAPSHOTS. Apache projects are prohibited from promoting to their users SNAPSHOTs, but can promote them on their dev lists, and in other places that the developers (but not users) of their project will see. Just a terminology thing, but SNAPSHOT and release are two different things here. Releases are something that your project's PMC has vetted, voted on, and approved for release. SNAPSHOTs (here) are artifacts that are intended to only be seen by the developers of the project, or perhaps users who want to test what is going to be the next release. Some projects vote on things like alpha and beta releases, and then publish those with alpha and beta titles to set expectations for users but also allow them to widely promote the release. --David --David
