Personally I think thats over doing it a bit on the T&C's, the PPMC hasn't created the artifact, I could create a release of any project and slap it on github and people could download it, doesn't make it "official" though, its just those faux-releases are generated by github themselves not a user.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > IMHO, the tags on github are not formal releases. > > The tags may not be but it does creates a release artefact that someone > can download. > > > So its not a violation of ASF release process. > > How so? It’s creating an artefact that the general public can access and > download before the vote is over. [1] [2] seems quite clear on this. > > > Some projects have handled this by moving release votes to a different > > (mirror/fork) of the project. > > You can just make the release on a branch rather than in a fork/mirror. > > Anyway I'll raise it on legal discuss. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. https://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution.html#unreleased > 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Tom Barber CTO Spicule LTD t...@spicule.co.uk http://spicule.co.uk GB: +44(0)5603641316 US: +18448141689
