>From what I understand its just that they are not officially supported by apache, not that you cant release binaries. But, im also not too sure of the situation
Glenn Williams tinylion development & design. http://www.justgiving.com/christine-williams2 As you may know my brother was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease last year. Please if you have time, Visit this link to help use fund rising. Thanks. Glenn -----Original Message----- From: Yann Chevalier [mailto:y...@baao.com] Sent: 04 July 2012 09:59 To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: How to release binaries (Was...VOTE] Release Apache Flex 4.8.0) Hi, I'm a old user of the Apache Tomcat project (like a lot of Flex devs I suppose). I'm surprised by the fact that Apache doesn't release official binaries. If you go for example here : http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi, you have a binary distribution. Am I missing something ? -Yann Le 4 juil. 2012 à 09:26, Bertrand Delacretaz a écrit : > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >> On 7/3/12 1:10 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >>> ... I have ignored the -incubating-bin.tar.gz file, we don't release >>> binaries, so -1 on that one. > >> Several Apache documents state that there are binary distributions >> provided as a convenience. Do they go through a different process? > > I'm not sure if there's a defined process ASF-wide, IMO what's > important is to clearly label those binaries as not being an Apache > release. > > The simplest way might be to create a "binaries" folder under > http://apache.org/dist/incubator/flex (which doesn't exist yet, but > that's where the release ends up once voted on), with a README.txt > that explains what those binaries are. > > Once such a mechanism is in place, I'm fine with people voting on what > to put in there if desired, in VOTE threads that are distinct from the > release votes, but let's not call that a release. What people can > express with their votes is "I think that foo.jar with md5 12345 is a > usable binary distribution of our software" or something like that, > but as opposed to source code releases those do not have the ASF's > stamp of approval. > > -Bertrand
