Take a look at http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what as well as the section that follows it. Releases are the only approved way of delivering our software to end users. While we can suggest that they check it out from subversion and try it in practice that doesn't usually get a lot of traction and it is a bit more difficult to report issues.
I also recommend going through with the release as it is an important step in moving through the incubator. It is expected that issues will occur during the release and having problems occur on an alpha release is less of a problem then on a GA release. In short, I highly recommend a release. Ralph On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Eric Sammer wrote: > All: > > I wanted to kick off a conversation around producing an alpha release of > the Flume NG branch. The goal would be to create a downloadable artifact > for people to test and play with without needing to build the project from > source. For lack of a better name, I'm proposing we call this > flume-1.0.0-alpha1. This isn't a formal vote, but a straw man discussion. > What do people think? Discuss! > > Thanks! > -- > Eric Sammer > twitter: esammer > data: www.cloudera.com
