Matt/James, Has there been any opportunity for either of you to look into setting up our ability to deploy SNAPSHOTs to repository.apache.org ?
Thanks, Stephen On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all of your responses. I'd just like to summarize for my own > benefit: > > 1. Matt/James are taking the task of setting up our ability to deploy to > repository.apache.org - we look forward to hearing when that will be > ready. > 2. We deploy both full releases and SNAPSHOTs to this repository. When we > deploy to this repository, such deployments are automatically mirrored to > central. SNAPSHOTs are not mirrored anywhere and those wishing to > experiment with them must get them from repository.apache.org. > 3. We should never promote SNAPSHOT releases anywhere except the dev > mailing list. > 4. We are free to publish SNAPSHOTs while under incubator. > 5. I think we understand the process of "release" at this point, but for > completeness of all that was said, a "release" is determined by vote via > the PMC. A "release" is meant to be public and promoted to users. > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:31 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. >> >> 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 >> > >
