On Tue Feb 10 2015 at 11:32:18 PM David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Thanks David. I thought Sonatype mirrored the snapshots too, but good to know they don't. > > 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 >
