How is publishing a tarball on a public site that is clearly labelled as a trial release and *not* for general consumption significantly different than making available a public SVN repository?
Ethan On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Gianugo Rabellino <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: >> If we are cutting a tag into a trial release in order to help >> ourselves figure out if we are ready to make a release, then I think >> we should call it a "release candidate" and we should not go through >> the full Apache release process and we should not "release" it. We >> should just put the RC tarball out on the public site for people to >> evaluate, > > Which at great length fits the ASF definition of a release... :) > > "Releases are, by definition, anything that is published beyond the > group that owns it. In our case, that means any publication outside > the group of people on the product dev list. If the general public is > being instructed to download a package, then that package has been > released." (http://apache.org/dev/release.html) > > -- > Gianugo Rabellino > M: +44 779 5364 932 / +39 389 44 26 846 > Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com >
