On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> wrote: > Mentors, is there any other ASF connotation to calling something a new > major version? I want to make sure I understand what I'm talking > about. ;)
See this, anything else you do is up to you. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what but to be overly clear the following statement is in error: > "The goal would be to create a downloadable artifact for people to test and > play with without needing to build the project from source" That is not your goal wrt Apache. Your goal is: "The Apache Software Foundation produces open source software. All releases are in the form of the source materials needed to make changes to the software being released." also "Under no circumstances are unapproved builds a substitute for releases. If this policy seems inconvenient, then release more often. Proper release management is a key aspect of Apache software development." If you want to also provide a convenience artifact (ie binary(s)) along with the source release artifact that's fine, but that's not what you are "releasing". We face the same issue in ZK. We resolve it by releasing new official versions and just messaging what's stable vs beta vs alpha etc... That's what you have a web site for. Blogs, etc... We did the same thing in Whirr. Start creating & publishing releases often, that's the only way to get things into user's hands. Patrick
