On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> wrote: > I think there are different definitions of "release" that are confusing > things. > > One is a release from the perspective of ASF which is concerned with > the process (votes on the MLs, etc.) and certain legal requirements. > I think Gianugo's last email expresses this focus on this consensus. > What is released (alpha release, beta release, RC, etc.) is here not > the focus....
Just to reiterate, according to http://apache.org/dev/release.html a release is "anything that is published beyond the group that owns it", so as soon as a release is made available for download on the ESME website (as opposed to just being mentioned here) it is an Apache release. Even naming it "junk release not to be used" won't make a difference, if it's published it has to be voted on. Naming an SVN tag or internally distributed tarball "release" doesn't make it a release either - it's the act of publishing it beyond the ESME group of developers (this mailing list) that makes a release and requires a vote. -Bertrand
