On 12/3/2013 3:37 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Is it documented somewhere what constitutes a release per Apache conventions? > I would imagine that a PMC could decide that certain releases are only made > on Maven Central and only specific releases are made as binary and source > bundles that go through the Apache mirroring/archive system.
There was a discussion somewhere (I'd have to search) that says because Apache's mission is to produce source code (not those exact words...) projects need to do source releases, and can optionally do binary convenience packages. The source code must be published on the Apache distribution system as part of the release. Because of this, the Maven project, which produces lots of maven plugins that are only used via Maven Central, started to publish as part of their release process, the sources on the Apache distribution system. See http://www.apache.org/dist/maven/plugins/ -Marshall > > Doing a release only via a specific channel doesn't mean that we wouldn't have > to do the usual process for voting etc. > > -- Richard > > On 03.12.2013, at 18:33, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hmmm, >> >> Apache projects are not allowed to "publish" things without doing the release >> process. >> >> I think the main principle would be: >> >> For addons, do a "release" of each one whenever it seems appropriate, and >> then, >> From time to time - do a bundled milestone release (like Eclipse). >> >> Of course, that's more work :-( ... >> >> -Marshall >> >> On 11/28/2013 9:19 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: >>> That's what I mean, yes. >>> >>> -- Richard >>> >>> On 28.11.2013, at 12:10, Jens Grivolla <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/28/2013 01:48 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: >>>>> For the addons, we might consider not having a separate folder for each >>>>> addon, and neither do source/binary releases for each release of an >>>>> individual >>>>> addon. Instead, we might consider doing bundled milestone releases (like >>>>> Eclipse) >>>>> every once in a while. >>>> Do you mean to publish maven artifacts of individual addons whenever they >>>> get updated, but only do releases for download from the UIMA page once in >>>> a while? That sounds like a very good option to me... >>>> >>>> -- Jens >
