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> From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 12:36:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Basing Apache releases on releases from incubating projects
> I guess if I could boil down my position to a single sentence it would be:
>
> "It would be nice if Apache projects had a mechanism other than
> 'release the podling' to include podling (possibly unreleased) features
> in their own Apache projects."
>
> In effect this makes it very easy to 'eat our Apache Incubator podling
> dogfood and reward the podlings for trying to do the Apache Way from the
> start, rather than going to some other OSS provider and then coming here
>later.
You're confused about the whole point of releases at Apache.
They aren't necessarily meant to offer any promises about
stability or suitability for a given purpose, they are simply
meant as a means of getting the code out the door in a formal
and responsible way (given that we *are* a corporation). Too
many projects fail to release alpha and beta quality
code, and that's not the org's, nor the Incubator's, fault.
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